President Biden is facing additional pressure from Democrats over his administration's interpretation of a gun control law which has led to funding blocked from school hunting classes.
In the guidance, obtained first by Fox News Digital, senior agency official Sarah Martinez wrote that archery, hunter education and wilderness safety courses utilize weapons that are"technically dangerous weapons" and therefore"may not be funded under ESEA programs."
The BSCA – which was criticized as a"gun control" bill, but touted by proponents as an effort to promote"safer, more inclusive and positive" schools – was passed overwhelmingly by Congress andin June 2022 after mass shootings at a grocery market in Buffalo, New York, and a school in Uvalde, Texas. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona delivers remarks about the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act at the National Safer Communities Summit in West Hartford, Connecticut, on June 16.
The law, though, included an amendment to a subsection in the ESEA listing prohibited uses for federal school funding. That amendment prohibits ESEA funds from helping provide any person with a dangerous weapon or to provide"training in the use of a dangerous weapon," but, according to the bill's sponsors, was included to prevent ESEA funding for school resource officer training.
"By misinterpreting which activities are now supported by ESEA, the Department of Education is limiting learning opportunities critical to student safety," Tester continued in his letter to Cardona."I urge the Department of Education to reconsider the interpretation of BSCA in a way that does not limit learning opportunities for students and does not present barriers to critical hunter safety courses.
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