Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) announced Friday the Trump administration had agreed to release at least some of the $6 billion in funding meant for after-school and summer programming that it had held.

The freeze of the funds, which also go toward English and adult learner classes and teacher preparation courses, had resulted in rare bipartisan pushback to a Trump policy on education.

In a victory lap after Capito led a Thursday letter with nine other Senate Republicans urging for the funds to be released, the West Virginia senator posted on X that the director for the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) told her the Department of Education is “releasing crucial funds to states that support after school and summer education........

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