A federal judge in Seattle blocked the Education Department’s move to terminate about four dozen school mental‑health grants across 15 states, finding the department likely violated federal notice and comment requirements. The grants fund counselors, psychologists and training programs placed in high‑need schools and have been winding down in anticipation of terminations that courts now must reconsider. The ruling cited the Administrative Procedure Act and emphasized the concrete harms grantees face as they scale down services pending funding decisions. Plaintiffs—state education agencies and school districts—argued that the terminations left them unable to maintain staffing pipelines and clinical placements. The injunction preserves multiyear funding while litigation continues and complicates the Education Department’s broader efforts to reallocate mental‑health dollars under new priorities. For campuses and districts, the decision restores short‑term program stability but leaves long‑term funding policy unresolved.