New Report Details Cuts to Education and Research Programs in Georgia

DOGE cut more than 50 grants in Georgia’s 10th district – impacting programs that trained students in school counseling, provided outreach to historically underserved farmers and recruited more women into fields like computer science, according to the Center for American Progress.

According to Flagpole.com, the cuts included the following:

• The Mary Frances Early College of Education lost a $2.8 million Department of Education grant to train 50 graduate students in the school counseling and school psychology programs to provide mental health services to K-12 schools in rural Georgia — perhaps because the grant application mentioned that services “are inclusive in terms of race/ethnicity, culture, language and sexual self-identity.”
  
  
• A $99,704 USDA grant to conduct outreach to “small, new beginner, historically underserved [and] veteran farmers, ranchers and youth in Northeast Georgia and Metro Atlanta.”
  
  
• $346,897 from the National Science Foundation to create a “virtual distance learning community” for rural math teachers.