Yet so much help is out there, untapped. (Phil Roeder)
By the spring of 2020, reality was setting in that the Covid-19 pandemic would stick around for quite some time, and Florida’s school districts were confronting an unknown education world.
Districts started talks about the next school year, considering mask mandates, staggered classroom schedules and other measures to bring struggling students up to par all of which would need money.
On May 18, 2020 the U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration released $770 million dollars to Florida schools to address the impacts of Covid-19.
More than a year later, and now under President Joe Biden’s administration, the amount has spiked to some $15 billion a largely unused stockpile of federal relief funds designated to pull Florida schools out of the Covid pandemic and mitigate its effects for this school year as well as the next few school years, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.
The feds earmarked $15B for Florida schools to help kids in the pandemic, but it s largely an unused stockpile floridapolitics.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from floridapolitics.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hillsborough schools welcome new financial chief
Romaneir Johnson replaces former CFO Gretchen Saunders.
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TAMPA â As it seeks to extricate itself from longtime financial troubles, the Hillsborough County School District is doing so with a new chief financial officer.
Romaneir Johnson joined the school district recently, replacing longtime financial chief Gretchen Saunders.
In a notice to School Board members, superintendent Addison Davis said Johnson worked last as senior fiscal director for the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, a statewide agency.
Before that, Johnson worked with large school districts including Detroit Public Schools, San Diego Unified School District, and the District of Columbia.
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