The Education Department has discontinued some grants for Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) recipients because they would have taught children about gender identity and racial justice, and didn’t hire staff based on merit, according to The Washington Post.

The agency told some programs last week that their funding had been cancelled and informed about 100 others that their funding would be renewed.

“The Trump administration will not fund programs that are not in the best interest of the American families they are intended to serve,” Education Department spokesperson Ellen Keast told The Washington Post.

The department did not disclose how many institutions or which ones have had their funding discontinued. They will have funds through the end of the grant period, The Post reported.

Since 1999, CCAMPIS has awarded assistance to colleges to provide campus-based childcare services for low-income student parents. In 2023, 264 colleges received a grant with the average award totaling $317,108.

In FY 2024 Congress appropriated $75 million for CCAMPIS but President Trump’s proposed FY 2026 budget cut the program’s funding to zero.

“The grants enable institutions to serve more students, to remain open for more hours, to provide more services. And in some cases, we’ve been told it’s a difference between remaining in operation and closing,” David Baime, senior vice president for government relations at the American Association of Community Colleges, told The Post. “So it is extremely important.”