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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was one of 16 governors nationwide to receive a letter urging states to rectify the disparity in funding between land-grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their non-HBCU land-grant peers.
States engaged in decades of underfunding of land-grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities, leading to a more than $12 billion disparity with comparable white institutions, leaders of the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack wrote a letter urging states to fund land grant HBCUs.
The federal government has written a letter to Gov. Bill Lee explaining that Tennessee State University is owed $2.1 billion in back pay for underfunding the school.
States engaged in decades of underfunding of land-grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities, two cabinet secretaries said on Monday.