The White House will release $5.5 billion in frozen education funds, administration officials announced on Friday, bringing an end to a chaotic month for school districts that had counted on the money with just weeks to go before the start of the school year.

President Trump had faced growing pressure over the delay from within his own party, including from 10 Senate Republicans who had signed a rare public letter urging the White House to release the funds.

The Department of Education said that it would begin sending the money to states next week.

The money was part of nearly $7 billion in education funding that had been approved by Congress and was set to be released by July 1, before the Trump administration abruptly withheld it a day before the deadline.

The money included more than $2 billion to help train and recruit teachers, particularly in low-income areas that often have trouble competing for the most qualified teachers. It also included money for arts and music education in low-income districts, extra help for children learning English and support for children of migrant farmworkers.

On June 30, the administration notified states that it would not release the money as scheduled. Officials offered little explanation, saying only that they were conducting a “review.” The White House Office of Management and Budget later said they had found individual instances of federal dollars being “grossly misused to subsidize a radical left-wing agenda.”

The unexpected delay sent school districts around the country scrounging for the lost dollars, unsure when or whether the money might come through.