As COVID funding dries up, school boards are making hard decisions over shutting down schools or laying off teachers in order to close budget deficits in the millions of dollars.
The Cleveland school district, one of the poorest and largest recipients of federal COVID relief cash in the country, may soon slash summer school, after-school and a program providing laptops for every student as the flow of aid ends this summer. Those initiatives, created to help the high-poverty district’s students after schools closed during the […]