Were Federal Covid Relief Funds for Schools Enough?Congress responded to the COVID pandemic's disruptions to instruction with unprecedented federal aid for school districts. While this relief has been widely chaGordon, NoraReber, SarahSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
CALIFORNIA BILL WOULD BAN SCHOOLS FROM TELLING PARENTS IF STUDENT IDENTIFIES AS LGBTQ: 'GUT-AND-AMEND' Regarded by Public Counsel as "one of the largest education-related settlements in U.S. history," California has also agreed to propose a new law enabling funds to be s...
and more funds to assist with Covid-19 testing. The crisis moment, however, is now. The number of daily coronavirus deaths are at record highs, and troubling variants are on the rise. While schools wait for the checks to arrive, principals like Daub are winging it, as they have since ...
Schools may be unable to provide catch-up learning because they have been forced to use government funds to plug the hole in finances left by implementing Covid safety measures, heads have warned. In June, the Department for Education (DfE) announced a £1 billion package to help tackle ...
About $2 billion in funds, including $300 million in additional tax funds from the state, will go helping reopen schools for in-person learning by March 1. "These one-time, flexible dollars will be distributed through a formula that recognizes the additional costs associated with supporting...
Public school budgets are a mess heading into next school year but it's not for a lack of dollars—President Joe Biden's COVID-19 windfall for public schools is backfiring. During the pandemic, Congress doled out $190 billion in K-12 relief aid, which created a fiscal cliff and helped...
State funding to address public school reopening costs has so far been inadequate to meet districts' identified needs. The first round of state aid distributed only 34% of the amounts requested by the districts with the greatest need. [32] Funds from the federal Elementary and Secondary School...
Answering questions in the House of Commons today, Mr Williamson said the government would use Ofsted to monitor how additional funds were being spent, following an announcement of a £1 billion package, including £650 million extra for schools, last week. WATCH: Teachers told to make catch...
Of the 67 countries eligible for the GPE funds, 63 have already closed schools nationwide in response to the pandemic. This has already cut more than 350 million children off from learning, but also from other vital services provided through schools, including health care and nutritious meals. ...
The study was supported by grants from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities for COVID-19 (xzy032020040, xzy032020027, xzy032020026, xzy012019107), Zhejiang University special scientific research fund for COVID-19 prevention and control (2020XGZX056), National Natural Science Fou...