WARNER, KAINE, COLLEAGUES DEMAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REVERSE ITS DECISION TO END FEDERAL FUNDING FOR MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Sen. Tim Kaine issued the following press release:

U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, (both D-VA) joined Senate colleagues in urging the Department of Education to immediately reverse the Trump Administration's harmful decision to unilaterally halt federal funding for Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). In the letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, the senators criticized the Department of Education's use of a Department of Justice (DOJ) determination that these programs are unconstitutional. The Trump Administration's halt of mandatory and discretionary funding for MSIs, which have previously been authorized on a biparti...