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The Learning Curve: More Cash for Schools Means More Transparency Concerns Several education advocacy organizations are calling for more transparency, accountability and stakeholder engagement in how school districts spend billions of dollars in coronavirus aid. Sweetwater Union High School faculty rally against a district proposal to lay off more than 200 employees and shut down learning centers dedicated to struggling students. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz If true, that’s good news. Because the children of San Diego and California are, in theory, about to be the beneficiaries of a spending b...

$55 billion is flooding into California school districts. But will it be spent wisely? FacebookTwitterEmail Desiree Almeida (right), health and fitness coordinator, works with Giselle (second from right), 9, at the elementary school learning hub at 201 Turk Street, part of the Tenderloin Clubhouse campus, on Monday, May 10, 2021 in San Francisco, Calif.Lea Suzuki/Lea Suzuki/The Chronicle Education advocates are sounding the alarm as California school districts rush to spend roughly $55 billion dollars in state and federal funds aimed to help districts recover from the pandemic and students wh...

Credit: Allison Shelley for American Education May 19, 2021 Last September, all school districts and charter schools completed a learning continuity plan in which they were required to provide extensive information on how they planned to use federal Covid relief and state funding to address learning gaps caused by the pandemic and meet the needs of their most vulnerable students. An intensive review of 48 districts’ plans by four student advocacy nonprofit organizations, released Tuesday, found model practices worth adopting, like Anaheim Elementary School District’s creation of an after-...