{"id":138,"date":"2026-05-22T22:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:08:55","slug":"students-with-hearing-and-vision-loss-get-funding-back-despite-trumps-anti-dei-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it.<\/p>

Read more Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little to Help.<\/a><\/p>\n

But rather than sending the money directly to the four programs that are part of a national network helping students who are deaf and blind, a condition known as deafblindness, the department has instead rerouted the grants to a different organization that will provide funding for those vulnerable students.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration targeted the programs in its attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion; a department spokesperson had cited concerns about \u201cdivisive concepts\u201d and \u201cfairness\u201d in explaining the decision to withhold the funding.<\/p>\n

ProPublica and other news organizations reported last month on the canceled grants to agencies that serve these students in Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin, as well as in five states that are part of a New England consortium.<\/p>\n

Programs then appealed to the Education Department to retain their funding, but the appeals were denied. Last week, the National Center on Deafblindness, the parent organization of the agencies that were denied, told the four programs that the Education Department had provided it with additional grant money and the center was passing it on to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will enable families, schools, and early intervention programs to continue to \u2026 meet the unique needs of children who are deafblind,\u201d according to the letter from the organization to the agencies, which was provided to ProPublica. Education Department officials did not respond to questions from ProPublica; automatic email replies cited the government shutdown.<\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n

When the funding was canceled, the programs were in the middle of a five-year grant that was expected to continue through September 2028. The funding from the center is only for one year.<\/p>

Read more This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know what will happen\u201d in future years, said Lisa McConachie of the Oregon DeafBlind Project, which serves 114 students in the state. McConachie said that with uncertain funding, her agency had to cancel a retreat this fall that had been organized for parents to swap medical equipment, share resources and learn about services to help students when they get older. She hopes to reschedule it for the spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is still a disruption to families,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cIt creates this mistrust, that you are gone and back and gone and back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oregon\u2019s grant application for its deafblind program, submitted in 2023, included a statement about its commitment to address \u201cinequities, racism, bias\u201d and the marginalization of disability groups, language that was encouraged by the Biden administration. It also attached the strategic plan for Portland Public Schools, where the Oregon DeafBlind Project is headquartered, that mentioned the establishment of a Center for Black Student Excellence \u2014 which is unrelated to the deafblind project. The Education Department\u2019s letter said that those initiatives were \u201cin conflict with agency policy and priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

Read More<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n <\/div>\n
\nPrograms for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump\u2019s Anti-Diversity Push<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

An advocate for deafblind students said he was happy to see the funding restored but called the department\u2019s decision-making \u201camateurish\u201d and disruptive to students and families. \u201cIt is mean-spirited to do this to families and kids and school systems at the beginning of the year when all of these things should be so smooth,\u201d said Maurice Belote, co-chair of the National DeafBlind Coalition, which advocates for legislation that supports deafblind children and young adults.<\/p>\n

Grants to the four agencies total about $1 million a year. The department started funding state-level programs to help deafblind students more than 40 years ago in response to the rubella epidemic in the late 1960s. Nationally, there are about 10,000 children and young adults, from infants to 21-year-olds, who are deafblind and more than 1,000 in the eight affected states, according to the National Center on Deafblindness.<\/p>\n

While the population is small, it is among the most complex to serve; educators rely on the deafblindness programs for support and training.<\/p>

Read more Alaska\u2019s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-education"],"yoast_head":"\nStudents With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign - Moving Services America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign - Moving Services America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Moving Services America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-22T22:08:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3c0a33c4a8e8f85136d033e4e14b01d.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1050\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a\"},\"headline\":\"Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-22T22:08:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138\"},\"wordCount\":711,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/d3c0a33c4a8e8f85136d033e4e14b01d.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"Education\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Education\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138\",\"name\":\"Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign - Moving Services America\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/d3c0a33c4a8e8f85136d033e4e14b01d.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-22T22:08:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/d3c0a33c4a8e8f85136d033e4e14b01d.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/d3c0a33c4a8e8f85136d033e4e14b01d.webp\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":1050},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?p=138#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Moving Services America\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingservicesamerica.com\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign - Moving Services America","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign - Moving Services America","og_description":"Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.","og_url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138","og_site_name":"Moving Services America","article_published_time":"2026-05-22T22:08:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2000,"height":1050,"url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3c0a33c4a8e8f85136d033e4e14b01d.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a"},"headline":"Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign","datePublished":"2026-05-22T22:08:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138"},"wordCount":711,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3c0a33c4a8e8f85136d033e4e14b01d.webp","keywords":["Education"],"articleSection":["Education"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138","url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138","name":"Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign - Moving Services America","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3c0a33c4a8e8f85136d033e4e14b01d.webp","datePublished":"2026-05-22T22:08:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3c0a33c4a8e8f85136d033e4e14b01d.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3c0a33c4a8e8f85136d033e4e14b01d.webp","width":2000,"height":1050},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?p=138#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump\u2019s Anti-DEI Campaign"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/","name":"Moving Services America","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2e45dc0fd6857d1590d6509b970ee98a","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com"],"url":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingservicesamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}