Schools Are Getting Billions In COVID Relief Money. Here's How They Plan To Spend It
New staff, new tech and even new classrooms â that's just some of what school superintendents across the country are buying with the windfall of COVID-19 relief dollars Congress has sent their way since the pandemic began. Those are the findings of a new survey of hundreds of school leaders put together by the national School Superintendents Association (AASA).
Before we get to the survey itself, though, some context:
Congress has approved essentially three big buckets of money for K-12 schools to help cover their pandemic costs: $13 billion from the CARES Act of March 2020, $54 billion from a December 2020 follow-up relief package and a whopping $122 billion from the American Rescue Plan (ARP), passed in March 2021.
The ARP isIt is the largest one-time federal investment in public education in this country."
