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In this case, it’s the good kind of flood a flood of money.
“Everybody overuses the word ‘unprecedented,’ but it really is an unprecedented amount of federal funding coming to schools in a really short amount of time,” said Hannah Barrick, assistant executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials (PASBO).
Barrick’s referring to the new federal stimulus bill, which when signed, as expected, by President Joe Biden will steer about $125 billion to school districts and charter schools.
That money will likely come with a deadline attached: Sept. 30, 2023.
While navigating a health and educational crisis, school leaders will have two-and-a-half years to decide how they spend a once-in-a-generation influx of cash.
Pennsylvania public school districts have seen a larger-than-usual exodus of students to charter schools, in particular cybercharters, as well as to private and parochial schools, and homeschooling because of the pandemic, leaving districts struggling to budget for next year.
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