This story was published by The 19th and reprinted with permission.  State officials and teacher union leaders are reeling after President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to freeze more than $6 billion in federal K-12 education funding for the upcoming school year  — a move critics say will further kneecap schools after mass cuts and layoffs […] The post $6 billion school funding freeze sparks outcry over ‘cruel betrayal’ of students  appeared first on The Hechinger Report.