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Latest COVID stimulus bill to send Louisiana schools up to $1.6 billion combined
Will Sentell
Louisiana public schools and colleges and universities are in line to get a new round of aid from the latest federal stimulus package after landing $484 million earlier this year.
Public schools received $287 million in May and higher education $147 million from the $2.2 trillion federal CARES Act, and divided another $50 million that was left to the discretion of Gov. John Bel Edwards.
The legislation that congressional leaders agreed on Sunday night totals about $900 billion. The compromise still faced final votes in Congress Monday night.
It includes $23 billion for colleges and universities nationwide and $54 billion for public schools.
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If Louisianaâs college graduates hoped for the âcollege experience,â they got both: college and an experience, especially these past nine months.
Thatâs what graduates likely thought this month and last as they concluded their academic programs and set out on the rest of their life journeys. If study during the novel coronavirus was not what they had signed up for, it was nonetheless what they overcame.
In south Louisiana, eight of nine University of Louisiana System institutions marked or are marking graduation with some type of in-person celebration. The ninth, the University of New Orleans, held a ârollingâ graduation with students in their vehicles, one last, last joyous ride through campus.