Amid layoffs and cuts to school programs, Maryland and Virginia were granted hundreds of millions more in federal stimulus funds to help plug the outflow of education dollars.

Virginia will receive about $324 million this summer from the U.S. Department of Education, while Maryland will see about $237 million, officials announced on Thursday. The dollars will go, in part, toward bulking up school budgets cut by local governments and supporting schools with high concentrations of low-income families.