U.S. Education Department unlocks school funding, including $42 million for Kansas

President Donald Trump’s administration announced Friday it was releasing billions of dollars in school grants, including more than $42 million that had been withheld in Kansas.

“We have received notification that the title funds that were previously held back by the U.S. Department of Education will now be released,” a spokesperson for the Kansas State Department of Education said late Friday.

The money withheld from schools nationally paid for professional development for educators,