Congress created the grants in response to a shortage of qualified teachers. Eight Democratic-led states said the grants were improperly terminated.

A federal appeals court overturned a lower court's order that had temporarily restored millions of dollars in terminated grant funds.

The Trump administration wants to terminate the grants because of what it calls “objectionable DEI material” in the programs they would fund.

The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Friday in litigation over education-related grants, splitting 5-4 with Republican appointees in the majority.

The administration gets its first victory before the high court against lower court orders pausing its policies.

The Supreme Court blocked an order on Friday that would force the Trump administration to pay out millions of dollars in teacher training grants. In a 5-4 decision, the justices halted a lower court’s temporary order that prevented the government from canceling the grants as part of its effort to cut programs related to diversity,

The Supreme Court will convene on May 15 to hear an emergency request from the Trump administration to consider whether judges overstepped their authority by filing nationwide injunctions to block