On May 2, 2025, at the age of 30, the grant that funded much of PBS KIDS’ content—the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) (now defunct, too) and Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) Ready to ...

For the past 30 years and with broad bipartisan support in Congress, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has funded competitive Ready to Learn (RTL) grants, authorized under the Elementary and ...

As the Trump administration continues to try to defund NPR and PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said this week that the Department of Education has ended a federal grant that helped fund ...

ATLANTA — PBS has furloughed staff in response to its changing financial outlook, President Paula Kerger said during her keynote address Monday at the PBS Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The cuts were ...

The termination of the federal grant program, called Ready To Learn, resulted in a loss of $23 million that would have gone to educational programs. By Benjamin Mullin The White House effort to cut ...

PBS has furloughed some of its staff weeks after the Trump administration began a push to defund the public broadcaster. A PBS spokesperson said in a statement to USA TODAY that 25% of PBS Kids ...