State and local leaders are scrambling after the Trump administration withheld nearly $7 billion in federal education funding, which includes almost $30 million for Rhode Island schools.

Statewide, about $168.8 million is being withheld, pending a Trump administration review, and more than $6 billion is being withheld nationwide.

The district says it will freeze some hiring and spending while it waits on word on whether it will get the $8.1 million in federal funding.