NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a lawsuit against the Department of Education for withholding $6 billion in education funding.

The lawsuit argued that the decision to freeze these funds resulted in “chaos” for schools across the country.

North Carolina has joined about two dozen states in a lawsuit over the freezing of billions of dollars in federal funding for public schools.

SALISBURY — Rowan-Salisbury Schools is facing a $1.5 million shortfall following the U.S. Department of Education funding freeze that went into effect at the beginning of the month. North Carolina officials joined in with 24 other states to sue the federal government after nearly $6.

North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson, with attorneys general from 24 states, sued the federal government over the withholding of $6.8 billion in educational funds, risking $165 million and nearly 1,000 teaching jobs in NC.

Twenty-Five states, including North Carolina, are suing the Secretary of Education, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and President Donald Trump.

School board approves contract with Crosby Scholars, but the $50,000 grant is on hold after Trump freezes funds. Hours before the vote, Interim Superintendent Catty Moore heard from the county that sales-tax revenues were not lagging, but were in fact, ex…