{"id":471262,"date":"2025-07-18T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/?p=471262"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:26:53","slug":"americorps-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_ko\/education\/k-12-education\/2025\/07\/americorps-california\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like having a hand cut off\u2019: California schools reeling after AmeriCorps cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-gray-background-color has-background calmatters-summary\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"has-small-font-size calmatters-summary-heading\"><strong>\uc694\uc57d\ud574\uc11c<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"calmatters-summary-content\">Trump cut AmeriCorps, laying off over 5,600 of California\u2019s public service workers. Because of a lawsuit, the state\u2019s program can restart, at least temporarily, but schools and disaster relief sites are still reeling from staffing shortages.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>AmeriCorps may have won a temporary legal reprieve to keep operating, but the long-term future looks bleak for the popular program that sends thousands of workers to California schools, food banks, health clinics, and disaster relief sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an effort to rein in government spending, President <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">\ub3c4\ub110\ub4dc \ud2b8\ub7fc\ud504<\/a> cut funding for the program in April, prompting California and 23 other states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/04\/29\/california-sues-trump-administration-for-dismantling-americorps\/\">to sue<\/a> in a Maryland district court. In June, a federal judge granted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/69978631\/149\/state-of-maryland-v-corporation-for-national-and-community-service\/\">temporary injunction<\/a>, reinstating California\u2019s grants and allowing its AmeriCorps workers to return to their jobs. But many workers who are eligible to return have found other employment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress has already approved funding for AmeriCorps for the next fiscal year, which begins Aug. 1. The Trump administration has yet to release the money, which normally arrives earlier this summer. Josh Fryday, director of the state\u2019s Office of Service and Community Engagement, said he didn\u2019t know when the money would be available \u2014 or if it would get released at all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe administration does not communicate with us,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cInstead they make rash decisions that hurt our communities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if the money does arrive this year, Trump\u2019s recent budget proposal does not include money for AmeriCorps after 2026, which means the 32-year-old program may end unless another funding source comes through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The loss of the program would have a deep impact on hundreds of California schools, particularly those serving low-income students, where AmeriCorps staffs tutoring, mentorship and after-school programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe negative impact of these illegal DOGE cuts hurts our communities. It has nothing to do with efficiency or cutting bureaucracy \u2014 it makes us weaker,\u201d Fryday said last week during a visit to an AmeriCorps program in Napa. \u201cBut California is not backing down.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following April orders from Trump\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency, California lost over 5,600 AmeriCorps public service workers and over $60 million in funding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 24 states suing the federal government say that the money had been appropriated by Congress to provide crucial government service and that the Trump administration lacked the legal power to cut it. The injunction will remain in place until the court makes a final ruling. States that didn\u2019t sue are exempt from the injunction and any future rulings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadline for the California\u2019s AmeriCorps workers to return was last week, but about half of them didn\u2019t come back \u2014 often because they found other opportunities \u2014 leaving dire staffing shortages in programs that thousands of people rely on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-like-having-a-hand-cut-off\">\u2018Like having a hand cut off\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In Napa County, school officials have been scrambling to fill dozens of vacancies and find money to create permanent jobs for AmeriCorps staffers. It\u2019s been especially challenging with the slew of other education cuts schools are facing: the <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/education\/k-12-education\/2025\/04\/education-department-2\/\">end of pandemic relief grants<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/education\/k-12-education\/2025\/07\/education-funding-california\/\">White House cuts<\/a> to after-school programs, migrant education and other programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AmeriCorps has been \u201cinvaluable,\u201d said Napa County Superintendent Barbara Nemko. \u201cThey don\u2019t earn a lot of money but they provide an incredible service. Losing them was like having a hand cut off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"min-height:581px\" id=\"datawrapper-vis-AvwT3\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" defer src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/AvwT3\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" data-target=\"#datawrapper-vis-AvwT3\"><\/script><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/AvwT3\/full.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"Table with 52 rows and three columns: AmeriCorps project, organization and amount of federal funding received for 2024-25. The project that received the most funding was California Climate Action Corps with $5,250,495.\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Lopez, a psychology student at Napa Valley College, spent last year as an AmeriCorps worker at the after-school program at Northwood Elementary in Napa. She choked up when she described her experiences in the program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She developed close relationships with the children and felt she could help them through their social and emotional challenges. When students had tough days, she would encourage them to talk about it, \u201claugh, cry, be angry \u2026 basically, understand that it\u2019s OK to show emotions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome of these kids were special to me because I\u2019d see them have a hard time, but then see how they grew,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cThey\u2019d say, \u2018Miss M, thank you for helping me, you were here for me when my parents weren\u2019t here or when I doubted myself.\u2019 \u2026 Those moments I had with those kids are always here in my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was among those who were laid off when the White House slashed funding. She dreaded telling her students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was tragic,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cThere was a lot of crying. Some were devastated. \u2026 These kids need this support. It changes lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, Lopez was lucky. Napa County Office of Education found money \u2014 at least for now \u2014 to hire her as a regular after-school program worker, and she hopes to continue working there after school reopens this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div\n\t\tclass=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles cm-inline-recirc-hppb wpnbha show-image image-alignleft ts-3 is-1 is-landscape cm-inline-recirc-hppb\"\n\t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t<div data-posts data-current-post-id=\"471262\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-section-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>\ub2e4\uc74c\uc744 \uc77d\uc5b4\ubcf4\uc138\uc694<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"463444\"\n\t\tclass=\"tag-donald-trump tag-education tag-k-12-education category-education category-k-12-education type-post post-has-image\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_ko\/education\/k-12-education\/2025\/04\/dei\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/080923_School-Attendance_SN_CM_22.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"After Trump\u2019s crackdown on DEI in schools, judge rules he can&#8217;t cut off funding\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/080923_School-Attendance_SN_CM_22.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/080923_School-Attendance_SN_CM_22.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/080923_School-Attendance_SN_CM_22.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/080923_School-Attendance_SN_CM_22.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/080923_School-Attendance_SN_CM_22.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/080923_School-Attendance_SN_CM_22.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><!-- .featured-image -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_ko\/education\/k-12-education\/2025\/04\/dei\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">After Trump\u2019s crackdown on DEI in schools, judge rules he can&#8217;t cut off funding<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\" data-no-translation=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"author-prefix\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_ko\/author\/carolyn-jones\/\">Carolyn Jones<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><!-- .author-name -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-wrapper -->\n\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>Alexis Lopez got involved with AmeriCorps in part because she knows what life is like for kids with no place to go after school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she was younger, she and her brother would wait for hours outside their Napa elementary school for their mother\u2019s shift at a local senior facility to end. They\u2019d watch the secretary lock up and go home, and just keep on waiting, hour after hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know first-hand how much kids need after-school programming,\u201d Lopez said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a student at San Francisco State, Lopez thought she wanted to be a teacher, but changed her mind after she signed up for AmeriCorps and was assigned to work in the after-school program at Napa Unified.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She immediately fell in love with it, and decided to make it her career. She\u2019s now the site coordinator for the after-school program at Phillips Elementary. And her years of AmeriCorps service allowed her to pay off her student loans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was shocked when she heard the program had been cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy heart sank,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cThis program has such a huge impact on kids. It just feels horrible because it\u2019s beyond your control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California Attorney General Rob Bonta has his own history with AmeriCorps. Just after he graduated from Yale in the early 1990s, he worked for a community organization in New Haven, Conn., that later became part of AmeriCorps. He worked for more than a year as a mentor and tutor in an after-school and summer program in a public housing facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He recalled students confiding in him about their struggles, fears and goals. He also got a glimpse of the difficult \u2014 and sometimes dangerous \u2014 circumstances his students navigated, and how much they benefited from positive role models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was one of the most meaningful and impactful experiences of my life,\u201d Bonta said during a visit to Bel Aire Park Elementary in Napa last week. \u201cIt sparked my passion for public service.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sudden-layoffs-put-los-angeles-fire-relief-on-hold\">Sudden layoffs put Los Angeles fire relief on hold\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>President Bill Clinton started AmeriCorps in 1993, based loosely on the Peace Corps and 1960s-era War on Poverty programs intended to bolster community service and volunteerism and help those in need.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AmeriCorps workers in California \u2014 typically, college students and recent graduates \u2014 earn a small stipend, plus up to $10,000 in grants to offset tuition and student loans. Older Americans are also eligible and can pass their education grants to their children or grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cuts caught workers and program directors off guard and left roughly 50 California projects in sudden limbo. Even state-funded public service projects are at risk because they rely on the federal government to provide education grants to their staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>We were not given really any information,\u201d said Amber Gibson, who runs an AmeriCorps program for the Red Cross. At the time of the cuts, she was overseeing about 20 service workers who were providing assistance to victims of Los Angeles\u2019 Palisades and Eaton fires. Another organization, California Emergency Response Corps, had assigned over 50 members of its AmeriCorps team to provide additional disaster relief.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, AmeriCorps workers from the two groups assisted YMCA centers manage donations while helping thousands of victims apply for and ultimately access federal disaster relief. Often, they worked 10-12 hour shifts, said Nadia Rodriguez, the program director of the California Emergency Response Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the last week in April, the AmeriCorps disaster relief work suddenly stopped. \u201cWe had people flying home and driving home within 48 hours of that notice,\u201d Rodriguez said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using state money, the California Emergency Response Corps was able to rehire its AmeriCorps workers in different positions, though they were no longer able to work on rebuilding efforts in Los Angeles. That kind of relief work is more expensive, said Rodriguez, so without federal funds, it wasn\u2019t feasible anymore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Red Cross has less state money available and decided to close its program entirely soon after Trump announced the cuts in April, Gibson said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI worry with these programs getting cut what happens to future humanitarians,\u201d she said. \u201cDisasters are increasing in frequency. We\u2019re in a state of continuous response, and we were building the next generation of leaders who are responding to these threats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div\n\t\tclass=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles cm-manual-eoa-recirc wpnbha show-image image-alignleft ts-3 is-1 is-landscape cm-manual-eoa-recirc\"\n\t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t<div data-posts data-current-post-id=\"471262\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-section-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>\ub354 \ubcf4\uae30<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"456284\"\n\t\tclass=\"tag-donald-trump tag-education tag-k-12-education category-education category-k-12-education type-post post-has-image\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_ko\/education\/k-12-education\/2025\/02\/trump-education\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/02282023_COLISEUMELEMENTARY_CM_PU23-CM.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"How Trump&#8217;s drastic K-12 plans will \u2014 and won&#8217;t \u2014 change California schools\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/02282023_COLISEUMELEMENTARY_CM_PU23-CM.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/02282023_COLISEUMELEMENTARY_CM_PU23-CM.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/02282023_COLISEUMELEMENTARY_CM_PU23-CM.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/02282023_COLISEUMELEMENTARY_CM_PU23-CM.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/02282023_COLISEUMELEMENTARY_CM_PU23-CM.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/02282023_COLISEUMELEMENTARY_CM_PU23-CM.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 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