By Dian Schaffhauser 01/15/21 Even as the Biden administration has begun pushing for the next recovery package, educators are still sorting out the details of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, otherwise known as "CARES Act 2." The $900 billion relief package passed by Congress on Dec. 21, 2020 and signed into law on Dec. 27, dedicated $82 billion for education. While the funding covered the same three buckets of money set aside in the CARES Act legislation signed into law in March 2020, specifics vary slightly. Act 2 provides: $54.3 billion for K-12, under the Elementary School Emergency Relief (ESSER II) Fund; $22.7 billion for colleges and universities, under the Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER II) fund;