{"id":1987223,"date":"2023-07-31T19:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T23:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-blocks-federal-funds-from-schools-with-archery-and-hunting-programs\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T19:17:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T23:17:42","slug":"biden-blocks-federal-funds-from-schools-with-archery-and-hunting-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-blocks-federal-funds-from-schools-with-archery-and-hunting-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden prohibits federal funding for schools with archery and hunting programs."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-blocks-federal-funds-from-schools-with-archery-and-hunting-programs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1987223&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Department of Education\u200b Withholds Federal Funding from Hunting \u2064and \u200dArchery Programs in Schools<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Education has made the decision to withhold federal funding\u2062 from\u200d hunting and\u2064 archery programs in\u200b schools. This action is in accordance with the 2022\u2062 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, a law passed after a tragic school shooting in\u200c Texas.\u2062 The department states that this law requires them \u2062to\u2062 withhold certain grant funds from these programs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The prohibition went into effect immediately on\u200b June 25, 2022, and applies\u2062 to all existing and future awards under all ESEA programs,&#8221; the\u2064 department explained. &#8220;The department is administering the bipartisan law \u2064as written by Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The specific\u200d provision in\u2062 the act is an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It prohibits federal\u200d funds from being allocated to programs that provide dangerous weapons or training in their use.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Floyd, the president of the National Archery in the Schools Program, expressed his disappointment with these \u2062new restrictions. He \u200cbelieves that these programs are beneficial\u2063 for children, helping them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-are-11-million-unfilled-jobs-in-america-where-are-the-workers\/\" title=\"There Are 11 Million Unfilled Jobs in America \u2013 Where Are the Workers?\">develop important skills<\/a>\u2063 and fostering \u200drelationships with positive role\u2064 models.<\/p>\n<p>In a &#8220;frequently \u2064asked questions&#8221; document, the department suggests\u200d that the Stronger Connections grants, established\u200d by the 2022 law,\u2062 should \u2064be\u200b utilized to create safer and healthier learning environments. These \u200cgrants aim to\u2063 prevent and\u2063 address issues \u200csuch \u2062as bullying, violence, and hate within\u200c school communities.<\/p>\n<p>While\u2063 the grants can be\u200c used for various purposes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-blocks-federal-funds-from-schools-with-archery-and-hunting-programs\/\" title=\"Biden prohibits federal funding for schools with archery and hunting programs.\">including physical\u200c education programs<\/a>, they cannot be used \u2064for hunting\u200d or archery\u200c programs due \u200cto the prohibition on training in the use \u2062of dangerous weapons.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;A &#8216;dangerous \u200cweapon&#8217;&#8230; \u200cis a weapon, device, instrument, material, or substance, animate or inanimate, that\u200b is used for, or \u200bis readily \u200dcapable of, causing death or serious bodily injury, except that\u200c such term does\u200d not\u2062 include a pocketknife with a blade of less\u2064 than 2 1\/2 inches in \u200clength,&#8221; the \u2063document explains, referencing U.S. law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Department of Education emphasizes that the Stronger Connections grants were created to provide\u2062 safe and supportive learning opportunities for all \u2062students. These\u2064 grants were released to\u2063 state\u2063 education \u200dagencies\u200b last September, \u200cand it is \u2062now their responsibility to\u200b award the funds to high-need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cruz-introduces-amendment-to-block-federal-funds-to-schools-that-enforce-child-covid-19-vaccine-mandates\/\" title=\"Sen. Cruz Introduces Amendment To Block Federal Funds To Schools That Enforce Child COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates\">local educational agencies<\/a> for\u200d activities allowable under the Elementary \u200cand Secondary Education Act.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a> to read the full article from the Washington\u200b Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Education is withholding federal funding from school hunting and archery programs due to a bipartisan law passed last year. The law aimed to restrict gun purchases after a tragic school shooting in Texas. A Department of Education spokesperson referred to the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act as the reason for this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1987224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}