Posted on 10/06/2021 8:03:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — One Wisconsin school district built a new football field. In Iowa, a high school weight room is getting a renovation. Another in Kentucky is replacing two outdoor tracks — all of this funded by the billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief Congress sent to schools this year.
The money is part of a $123 billion infusion intended to help schools reopen and recover from the pandemic. But with few limits on how the funding can be spent, The Associated Press found that some districts have used large portions to cover athletics projects they couldn’t previously afford.
Critics say it violates the intent of the legislation, which was meant to help students catch up on learning after months of remote schooling. But many schools argue the projects support students’ physical and mental health, one of the objectives allowed by the federal government.
Rep. Bobby Scott, the top Democrat on the U.S. House education committee, said the money shouldn’t be used to fund athletics at the expense of academics. It was meant to help students, he said, not sports programs.
It’s impossible to know exactly how many schools are using pandemic relief on athletics. Districts are required to tell states how they’re spending the money, but some schools are using local funding for sports projects and then replacing it with the federal relief — a maneuver that skirts reporting requirements.
Schools have wide flexibility in how they use the money but only three years to spend it, a deadline that has led some to look for quick purchases that won’t need ongoing funding after the federal money is gone.
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Better than spending it on CRT. Are the sports binary-gender oriented or diverse and inclusive?
Fort Worth Independent School District trying to get over $100 million for stadiums after getting 1 billion in covid cash which is outrageous. Voting hell no!
Did they set aside some money for gender reassignment counseling and puberty blocking shots to be given at school? Or raised property taxes for that?
They didn’t need the money but needed to do something with it.
If schools were supposedly so underfunded this would not have occurred.
Granted, sports/athletics are important parts of education and culture, I’ll grant you, but if this is what they spent the “emergency” money on, there was no immediate funding emergency.
I was told by a teacher in my home town that schools get $millions in fed money IF they enforce masking. This money can be spent on whatever they want. All of this is about money and greed. That is disgusting.
Irresponsible free for all with money that doesn’t belong to them nor even been created. Complete retards the lot of them 🤪
He makes the case very clearly that the mRNA vaccines are much more dangerous and unsafe than the actual Covid-19 disease.
This is a very powerful hour long video, well worth your time to view.
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