Schools have a once-in-a-generation infusion of massive funding to tackle a pandemic problem: millions of students struggling in school since COVID-19...
. From 2019 to 2021, the percentage of third graders passing those state tests dropped by more than 20 percentage points.
School officials have wide discretion on how to spend the money. They must decide whether the initiatives they implement with the federal funds are worth sustaining in the long run and — if so — how to pay for them.Texas lawmakers urge districts to keep track of what investments were worth the money and made a difference.
The next two packages largely flowed directly to local districts. Roughly 71% of those packages — with respective expiration dates in September of 2023 and 2024 — remain unspent, according to TEA.. The lab, which tracks district-level spending, showed that Dallas used less than 3% of its final package as of May 4.
“One of the things we saw from a lot of districts and charters was they did intend to hire additional staffing not only for additional tutoring and learning loss type activities … but also just additional staffing to make smaller class sizes,” TEA’s associate commissioner Green said. “What many of them do report is they’re having difficulty finding teachers that want to work in schools during the pandemic.
“No other industry does massive investments, and then just sits back and prays for months and months on end,” said Roza, who studies education finance. And when it comes to learning strategies, schools should not wait to see annual exam results — such as those from the STAAR tests — to decide whether a strategy is working.
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