Trump cuts the Migrant Education Program threatens 80,000 students in California


A group of young children sit on canoe and row down a river in the middle of a sunny day. Down the river in the background is a group of more children in their canoes.
Students of the Outdoor Migrant Education Program along the San Joaquin River near the Skout Island in Freen on July 11, 2025. Photo by Larry Valezuela, CalMatters/Catchlight Local

For children of migrants who have to travel around the country with their parents along with seasonal harvests, maintenance of school can be a challenge. But throughout the country an educational program for migrants, which helps teach some of these children to be protected by President Donald Trump recently – Forcing some schools in California to reduce staff and servicesS

Calm Carolyn Jones Explains, weeks before the new school year begins, the Trump administration has stopped $ 6 billion in federal subsidies For K-12 schools. Later, the administration has released some of the grants, under certain conditionsS But the money already intended by the congress to finance other programs, including the Federal Migrant Education Program – which has existed since 1966 – is still lingering.

For California, at least $ 650 million dollars federal grants remain frozen – threatening the existence of her migrant educational program, which does things like sending bilingual teachers to schools and work camps. Teachers provide the children of workers with migrants emotional and social support, as well as assistance in their class tasks and college enrollment.

Nearly 80,000 students in California are migrants and almost every California county has educational programs for migrants. Due to the cuts, some schools have fired the staff: the BUT County Education Service has facilitated more than 400 people. The Santa Clara County Education Office fired 22 and terminated many services for migrant students, including a Mathematics and Science Program and a debate tournament.

Describing the defense as Dark Times, Deb Benitez, director of migrant educational services for West, says the course of the administration is part of its width repression against immigrants.

  • Benitez: “This is a population of people who have devoted their lives to work in the fields, a very difficult job that we know historically no one else is ready to do. All they want is their children to be educated.”

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California clinics should lose $ 300 million

A planned place for parenting in Highland Park on August 8, 2022. Photo by Raquel Natalikio for Calmatters
Planned Highland Park Parental Facility on August 8, 2022. Photo by Raquel Natalikio for CalMatters

Talking about federal defense, Federal

But this does not include Each of 114 planned parenting clinics in California in Californiawrites Calmatters’ ChristenS

California planned parenting clinics will lose a total of $ 300 million arising from a provision included in the budget bill signed earlier this month for prohibiting planned parenting clinics from Receive Federal Payments on MedicaidS

Planned parenting is the largest abortion supplier in California, but it is only less than 10% of its services. With a million Californians who use planned parenting every year, his clinics provide patients with contraceptives, sexually transmitted infection tests, prenatal services and more. About 80% of his patients use Medi-Cal.

  • Jody HicksPresident and CEO of California Planned Parental Brails, in a statement: “The harsh reality is that planned parenting will be felt in every corner of the state and will not disproportionate to influence people with low incomes to rely on Medicaid programs or have no other health care opportunities.”

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Asylum

The backs of people wearing dark green overalls that say "detained" back as they walk in a hall in detention.
Detained at the Center for Detention of Out Mesa in San Diego on May 18, 2018. Photo of Lucy Nicholson, Reuters

Asylum seeker who has been detained for months in retaining immigration in San Diego without accessing translator has been releasedCalmatters’ reports Wendy FryS

The sister and sponsor of the detainee confirmed the message on Tuesday. The detained, identified as avirmed, escaped from Mongolia and arrived in the United States in February. He sought asylum from pursuit of his disability, but border guards transferred him to immigration and the application of customs who placed him at the center of detention.

For more than four months, Avirmed has not had access to a Mongol translator in sign language. His lawyers at the Legal Center for Disability Rights and Disability Act United claims that it is a violation of his legal civil rights.

Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered employees at the detention center to provide an Avirmed translator. It is not clear why the officials released Avirmed.

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And last: honey bee account progresses 🐝

Varoa Akara sits on honey bee on September 19, 2019. Photo by Sebastian Golnov, Reuters

A bill to create a health program for managed honey bees in California last week ahead of the Senate Committee of the Senate Agriculture Committee with a unanimous vote. Vital for agriculture and country economy, honey bees have been fighting in recent years due to parasitic mites, habitat loss and lack of food. Learn more For the question of my story in June.



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