Trump Administration

Proposed Treasury and IRS rule targets race-based practices in admissions, scholarships, athletics, and other school programs Private educational institutions face another significant development in the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to eliminate race-based [...]

Feldesman Partner Phillip A. Escoriaza will deliver the opening keynote at the Silver State Grants & Procurement Conference in Las Vegas on September 1-3, 2026.  Mr. Escoriaza will kick off the conference [...]

Feldesman Managing Partner Ted Waters will present on fiscal matters impacting health centers at the 2026 Oklahoma Primary Care Association (OKPCA) Annual Conference in Oklahoma City on September 1-3, 2026.  In “Uniform [...]

Feldesman Managing Partner Ted Waters will provide a critical update on federal grant regulations for attorneys at the DC Bar on August 26, 2026. His half-day presentation, “The Changing Landscape of Federal [...]

Proposal Reflects Key Elements of OMB’s Delayed Uniform Guidance Overhaul Colleges and universities, state education departments, local school districts, and other Department of Education grantees should review proposed changes to the Education [...]

A substantial revamp of the Head Start program is underway. On Friday, August 7, 2026, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Head Start published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [...]

Feldesman Partners Mindy B. Pava and Ted Waters will present at the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) 68th Annual Meeting, taking place August 1-4, 2026, in New York City. During [...]

A federal district court issued a significant decision limiting the government's ability to terminate federal grants based solely on policy or priority changes adopted by a new presidential administration. In New Jersey [...]

With only six days remaining before the public comment deadline closes for proposed changes to grant requirements in the Uniform Guidance (2 C.F.R. Part 200), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) [...]

Federal grant applicants should pay close attention to the newly issued funding opportunities from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Several recently released Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) include [...]