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The Trump administration is cutting money from programs that have supported minority students, including at other universities.
Sept. 15, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET
The Trump administration plans to inject nearly $500 million into historically Black colleges and tribal universities, a windfall funded largely by cuts to programs elsewhere for minority students.
The administration will also redirect money to other political priorities for President Trump, including an extra $137 million for American history and civics education and $60 million more for charter schools.
The increases follow a White House request for a 15 percent budget cut to the Education Department next year, as President Trump seeks support to permanently shutter the agency. History programs will now receive about seven times their expected funding for this year, and charter schools will see a 13 percent increase.
The changes were described by three people familiar with the plans who insisted on anonymity to speak about private discussions. Two senior officials from the Education Department said the additional funding for President Trump’s priorities would be announced as soon as Monday.
To pay for the changes, the administration cut money from other parts of the education budget. The biggest cut, announced by the department last week, is a $350 million hit to programs that support minority students in science and engineering programs, schools with significant Hispanic enrollment, and other federal grants at minority-serving institutions.
The administration also cut money from gifted and talented programs, which it said use racial targeting in recruitment in some cases, and from magnet schools, which have been used as a tool for combating school segregation.
