California secured a court order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from discontinuing roughly $200 million in school mental health grant funding awarded to dozens of schools and universities in California, including the Santa Clara County Office of Education and California State University East Bay.

Congress created the Mental Health Professional Demonstration Grant Program in 2018 following the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 14 students and three staff members, and the School-Based Mental Health Services Grant Program in 2020. The $1 billion in funding supports schools in providing mental health services for elementary and secondary schools throughout the country — including many in low-income and rural communities —

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