Close to $3 Billion in Pandemic Funds in Jeopardy as Education Department Abruptly Halts Payments

In this The 74 article about recent orders by the Trump administration to halt payments of remaining pandemic relief funds, Dan Goldhaber sheds light on why some districts may have been slow to utilize their funds: “You don’t want to force school systems to spend money more quickly than they are wanting to...that rush to get a lot of money out the door,” he said, “may have led to some of it not being spent very well.” Read the full article below, and check out the CALDER study on the impact of ESSER funding on student achievement to learn more about the effects of the funding.