A U.S. District Court judge granted a temporary restraining order on Monday that blocks the U.S. Department of Education from unlawfully terminating congressionally approved school-based mental health grants. The order in the case led by Attorney General Nick Brown and a coalition of 14 state attorneys general comes just days before the Department of Education would have begun terminating up to nine grants providing critical mental health services to Washington public school students at the end of July. 

“We have now beaten back multiple attempts by this administration to illegally gut funding for mental health in our schools. This program was a promise to America’s youth that their needs would be supported, and we won’t let the President break it.” – AG Brown