February 10, 2021
If Congress adopts the current version of a federal COVID relief bill, it would mean the Detroit Public Schools Community District will receive at least an extra $1.36 billion from the three relief bills passed by Congress in 2020 and 2021.
To put that figure context, in the 2018-19 school year, the district’s total revenue from all sources was $728.4 million. This year, the district could get in excess of $600 million more in federal dollars than its entire budget a year ago.
That estimate for extra school funding in the pending legislation is based on the same formula used in the previous two federal relief bills.