AUSTIN (KXAN) — Some Texas universities and colleges are losing money, while others will get more federal funding following recent announcements from the U.S Department of Education and the Trump administration.
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced last week that it's eliminating $350 million in federal grants to Hispanic-serving institutions.
"It will end discretionary funding to several Minority-Serving Institutions (MSI) grant programs that discriminate by conferring government benefits exclusively to institutions that meet racial or ethnic quotas," the DOE said. "This action follows the U.S. Solicitor General’s determination in July that the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) programs 'violate the equal-protection component of the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause,' a