(The Center Square) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined with 14 other attorneys general on a lawsuit attempting to stop the U.S. Department of Education from cutting funding to school-based mental health grants.
The coalition called the cuts “unlawful” as the funding was already appropriated by the U.S. Congress for the grants.
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