Federal COVID relief plan includes $130 billion to help schools reopen
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By Kaitlyn Cupelli
WASHINGTON (March 2, 2021)—President Joe Biden's $130 billion school reopening plan focuses on making schools safer for teachers and students, although returning to school remains a contentious and difficult issue.
Reopening the majority of K-8 schools within his first 100 days in office is a key part of the president's $1.9 trillion "American Rescue Plan" passed by the House on Friday on a party-line vote and now under consideration in the Senate.
"We can do this if we give the school districts, the schools themselves, the communities, and the states the clear guidance they need, as well as the resources they need that they can't afford right now because of the economic dilemma we are in," Biden said in January.