Joseph Sheppard
Special to The Citizen
The 2020-2021 budget is a good balance of tackling immediate needs, like recovering from COVID-disrupted learning, while making long-term investments in lowering class sizes, restoring art and music, and providing much needed social and emotional supports for our students. This year has been a tremendously challenging year for our students, parents and staff. We are confident that with your support of the budget this year, we can come together stronger than ever before; our students deserve nothing less.
Thankfully, after some worrying signs in the early versions of the state budget, the federal stimulus package included funding to pay for the unbudgeted costs associated with keeping our students safe and learning as best as possible during the pandemic. On a momentâs notice, the Auburn Enlarged City School District had to distribute laptops and internet hotspots to our students. We also had to take on ever-changing rules for
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Melina Mara, Associated Press
President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress
Wednesday in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in
Washington.
Andrew Harnik, Associated Press
President Joe Biden turns to applaud Vice President Kamala
Harris as he speaks to a joint session of Congress Wednesday in the
House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, as House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi of Calif., watches.
WASHINGTON â President Joe Biden declared Wednesday night in his first address to a joint session of Congress that America is rising anew, and pointed optimistically to the nation s emergence from the pandemic as a vital moment to rebuild the U.S. economy and fundamentally transform roles the government plays in American life.
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