A US federal judge on Thursday took up a case by eight Democratic-led states challenging the Trump administration’s termination of millions of dollars in teacher-training grants. US District Judge Angel Kelley said that the Department of Education’s decision to cancel certain educational grants belonged both in federal district court and in the Court of Federal Claims.

The decision follows a per curiam opinion from the US Supreme Court issued this past April, which held that President Donald Trump’s administration could move forward with the grant terminations while the lawsuit plays out in the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The dispute ultimately turned on whether the suit properly belonged in district court under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) or in Federal

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