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Pandemic windfall for US schools has few strings attached

by Larry FennCollin Binkley
| August 27, 2021 12:03 AM

As the federal government releases historic sums of pandemic aid to the nation’s schools, it’s urging them to dream big, to invest in seismic changes that will benefit students for generations to come. But many districts say they have more urgent problems to tackle first.

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