/ After Congress passed the first stimulus bill last year, officials used the state s $1.3 billion education share to fill other holes in the state budget, leaving public schools with few additional resources to pay for the costs of the pandemic.
For more than a year, the federal government has been pumping billions of dollars into school districts across the country to help them meet the demands of the pandemic. Most states have used that pot of stimulus funds as Congress intended: buying personal protective equipment for students and teachers, laptops for kids learning from home, improved ventilation systems for school buildings to prevent virus transmission and covering other costs.
Texas schools have yet to receive stimulus money from $19B allocation
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Completely unacceptable: STAAR testing started again - and crashed
Andres Picon, Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News
April 6, 2021
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Third-graders Aaron Diaz (left) and Naomi Castro take part in a class lesson as students at Pearce Elementary at Southside ISD attend a combination of classroom and at-home instruction last December.Kin Man Hui /Staff photographer
Students in San Antonio and across the state including some who have been learning at home came to school Tuesday for state-mandated STAAR testing they couldn’t complete due to glitches with the online system.
The first day of the STAAR came amid an ongoing pandemic that has many families still trying to decide whether or when to return their students to in-person learning. The STAAR must be taken in person and those who were unable to complete any of three tests affected by Tuesday’s problems will need to return to campus to try again.