Ray Hart, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of school districts, said in a statement that he is "relieved" the Education Department has released the remainder of the funds authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act "for the benefit of schoolchildren throughout our nation."

The Trump administration will release billions of dollars in federal education grants that it withheld from schools this month, officials said Friday.

Federal officials told the Kentucky Department of Education that the remaining funds will be released to the commonwealth.