With federal grant funding in limbo, BPS officials say they are not currently planning to cut staff whose programs rely on those grants.

“Right now, the funding is indicating from the federal government a delay,” Superintendent Mary Skipper said in a meeting with the Boston School Committee. “I want to emphasize a couple things. One is that we do not believe that there’ll be an impact to any BPS employees for the coming school year, 2025-26, or for any of the current BPS summer programming.”

The BPS news comes days after the Trump administration announced it would withhold $6 billion in congressionally approved education funding nationwide until further review.

As of July 1, $108 million due to Massachusetts districts had been withheld, according to state officials.

Skipper said Wednesday the district was preparing a memo for the School Committee to “further delineate and explain what the potential impact is for us.”

“We hope that this is money that gets released because it can’t underscore enough, this is $8 million for us,” Skipper said. “It funds some really critical needs areas of the organization.”

The Title grant dollars are the areas being withheld, Skipper said, particularly Title II Part A. These funds go to “supporting effective instruction,” the superintendent explained, on programs for student achievement, principal development and more.

The freeze is also impacting Title III dollars, for language instruction for English learners and immigrant students; Title IV Part A, for student support and academic enrichment; and Title IIII Part B, for the 21st Century Learning Centers grant, Skipper said.

The district is “actively looking within our own budget for temporary funding” to offset the potential losses, the superintendent noted.

Skipper said that for now “all we know is this is delay,” and the district hopes to avoid the permanent loss of the funds.

BPS officials previously stated that as much as $100 million in federal funding — equivalent to 6% of the district’s budget and two-thirds of the external fund — could be at substantial risk for the district as the Trump administration moved to dismantle the Department of Education.

“Again, this will not impact our summer, but this is certainly something that we need to keep you informed about, we need to keep our community informed about,” Skipper said. “And we’re going to be doing a lot of the planning, as we’ve already begun, for how we might be able to support and offset some of these critical need services.”