Economic outlook
Director of the Arizona Governor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting Matt Gress said Arizona “led the nation in poverty reduction with more than 175,000 Arizonans pulling themselves up out of poverty.”
Matt Gress
“We ranked second in job growth in 2020 with more jobs than people to fill them,” Gress said. “Fourth in weekly wage growth. Sixth in export growth. And then the COVID-19 pandemic hit with its unprecedented loss and economic hardship.”
“That shock was stabilized with steady growth, and today the fiscal year 2022 Executive Budget provides immediate attention to the needs of health and education after the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, while looking beyond to a future of prosperity and growth that displays the compassion and innovation and resilience of the people we serve,” Gress said.
Jan 16, 2021
HARRISBURG Governor Tom Wolf is dedicating $2.2 billion in federal stimulus funds to K-12 school districts and charter schools affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to support food programs, technological improvements and other education services.
“All schools have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and I commend school communities for rising to the challenge to combat the toll it has taken,” said Gov. Wolf. “This extra funding is critical to help schools meet the unique needs of educating students at this time while keeping school buildings safe when students return to the classroom.”
The federal relief is provided by the bipartisan Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER II) Fund passed by Congress in December.
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Plans to reopen for in-person learning at Pleasanton Unified School District took centerstage during the Board of Trustees first regular online meeting of the year on Thursday.
While Alameda County remains in the state s purple tier of COVID-19 monitoring and the Bay Area s regional ICU capacity has been in the single digits since last week, instruction continues for PUSD students via remote learning, but PUSD officials are progressing with plans to eventually return to the classroom.
Ed Diolazo, assistant superintendent of student support services, told the Board that Governor Gavin Newsom s plan to reopen schools released in late December pretty much aligned to what we already approved for when we re able to reopen, by staggering the reopening of elementary grades and focusing on small cohorts at the secondary level.
Gov. Tom Wolf is dedicating $2.2 billion in federal stimulus funds to K-12 school districts and charter schools affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to support food programs, technological improvements and