Education funding a flashpoint in Covid relief

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Biden's Covid legislation has about $170 billion for schools and colleges — which the administration has said is crucial to accomplishing its goal of reopening a majority of K-8 schools within the first 100 days

— Republicans leaders have seized on a Congressional Budget Office report that estimated the billions in education relief in the bill would be spent over the course of the next seven years.

Even though the money isn’t recorded as spent by the federal government, schools “have budgeted for every dollar they are scheduled to receive from the COVID relief bills and are still anticipating more significant costs they will be unable to meet without additional federal funds,” a coalition of education groups— “The fact that the money has not been spent does not mean that it hasn’t all been obligated,”, the chair of the House education committee, told reporters on Friday.

 

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When is the Biden honeymoon period over? This is getting ridiculous.

Just vaccinate the teachers

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