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Trump reportedly wants Harvard to build vocational schools as part of a $500\u00a0million settlement.<\/p>\n
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While President Trump has proposed slashing the federal workforce development budget, a potential settlement between Harvard University and the Trump administration could involve the a plan to use $500\u00a0million the government is demanding to build vocational schools, Bloomberg<\/em> reported Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Harvard is one of nine universities the Trump administration has targeted with federal funding freezes. In April, the government froze $2.2\u00a0billion in federal grants after the university rejected its demands to overhaul its policies on admissions, governance, hiring and more. In July, Harvard, which also sued the Trump administration over the freeze, was reported as open to paying as much as $500\u00a0million to settle with the Trump administration, though leaders said they would be reluctant to pay the government directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n While no deal with Harvard has materialized yet, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC on Thursday that if one does, the $500\u00a0million could go toward vocational education.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIf Harvard settles with Donald Trump, you know what he\u2019s going to do with the $500\u00a0million?\u201d Lutnick said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to have Harvard build vocational schools. The Harvard vocational school, because that\u2019s what America needs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n But deal or no deal, the frozen funds may start flowing back to Harvard soon. <\/p>\n Last week, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally froze Harvard\u2019s federal money, but the government plans to appeal. Earlier this week, The New York Times<\/em> reported that Harvard researchers were told some grants were being restored, though it\u2019s not clear how widespread those restorations were. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump reportedly wants Harvard to build vocational schools as part of a $500\u00a0million settlement. Zhu Ziyu\/VCG\/Getty Images While President Trump has proposed slashing the federal workforce development budget, a potential settlement between Harvard University and the Trump administration could involve the a plan to use $500\u00a0million the government is demanding to build vocational schools, Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1512,676,334,81,12981],"class_list":{"0":"post-21152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-build","9":"tag-harvard","10":"tag-school","11":"tag-trump","12":"tag-vocational"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}