Billions in School Covid-Relief Funds Remain Unspent; Biden Dumped $122B on Schools, 93% is Unspent

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Billions in School Covid-Relief Funds Remain Unspent

U.S. school districts are struggling to spend billions of dollars in federal pandemic-relief money before the funding expires.

Districts have yet to spend 93% of $122 billion sunk into the K-12 education system last year as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, according to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Education.

The money, the largest-ever disbursement of federal funding for American schools, is meant to address learning loss, mental-health problems and other issues in schools caused by the pandemic. Districts are spending the money on teachers, counselors, technology, after-school programs and upgrades to school facilities.

If local districts don’t spend or direct the funds by September 2024, the money will disappear from their budgets. Some school officials and observers are concerned by the coming deadline and the large portion of the funds that remain unspent.

The short-term nature of the money has made it harder to use, school officials said, because any new staff may have to be laid off when the money expires. Workforce shortages and supply-chain issues have also posed challenges, officials said.

“There’s a real pressure to show something for it,” said Nick Melvoin, a school board member for the 575,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District.

The district, the nation’s second-largest, has yet to spend a penny of the $2.57 billion in American Rescue Plan money it received last year. It is still trying to use up a few hundred million dollars from earlier stimulus packages.

In January, 32 organizations from across the U.S. sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona asking for a two-year extension on the September 2024 deadline, citing supply-chain issues causing delays with the installation of ventilation systems to inhibit the spread of the virus. --->READ MORE HERE

Biden Dumped $122B on Schools, 93% is Unspent:

"We're desperate, give us money."

"If only we had funding, we might be able to teach."

"Students in America are failing because schools don't have enough money."

Nah. They have more money than they know what to do with. Every single outrageous property tax increase, teachers' union strike, and new budget pours insane amounts of money into a black hole that eats it up and emits nothing in return except more demands.

We overfund the public school system and the vast majority of the money gets stolen, wasted, or sent off to politically connected consultants, woke textbook publishers, and the rest of the industrial educational complex.

U.S. school districts are struggling to spend billions of dollars in federal pandemic-relief money before the funding expires.

Districts have yet to spend 93% of $122 billion sunk into the K-12 education system last year as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, according to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Education.--->READ MORE HERE

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