Bay Area universities lost more than $2 million in funds after the Trump administration announced it was rerouting money meant for minority-serving institutions to charter schools and other educational programs, an analysis by Bay Area News Group has revealed.

In September, the Department of Education announced it was ending $350 million in discretionary funding for several minority-serving grant programs, alleging the programs were “racially discriminatory” because qualifying schools must maintain a percentage of minority students in their total student enrollment.

The grants that were slashed supported schools that served a higher population of Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students, black students, Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander students, Native American stude

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