The Kansas City, Missouri, Public School District is one of several local districts grappling with a federal funding freeze, and KCPS expects refugee and immigrant support programs to be hit hard.
KCPS fears loss of over $1.1 million for refugee and immigrant programs
“This is just another attack,” said Joan Kelly, director of strategic partnerships for Jewish Vocational Service, or JVS, Kansas City’s largest refugee resettlement agency.
Kelly says JVS was subject to a freeze earlier this year. The impacts of that freeze are still being felt.
“Regardless of the funds ever being made available or not, it immediately impacts planning, it immediately sows fear,” Kelly said. “I think it’s just another blow.”
One of JVS’s key partners is Kansas City Public Schools, one of many local districts responding to the decision to freeze $7 billion in federal aid already approved for education funding for this fiscal year…