A FOX News report claims that the Biden Administration is withholding funding for schools that have archery and/or hunting programs.
According to FOX News, there are certain funds earmarked for archery and hunting programs via the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. But the Biden Administration is allegedly claiming the gun control package Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) helped secure in the summer of 2022 “[precludes] school hunting and archery classes…from receiving federal funding.”
The gun control package, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), amended a subsection in the ESEA to prohibit any act to provide dangerous weapons or pay for “training in the use of a dangerous weapon.”
Cornyn is now trying to get the amended language reinterpreted.
He wrote a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, saying:
We were alarmed to learn recently that the Department of Education has misinterpreted the BCSA to require the defending of certain…
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