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In Illinois, $5.1 billion in ARP ESSER funding was awarded to the state Board of Education for its reopening plan that implemented strategies with "an emphasis on equity and diversity." The plan provided school districts with training on topics like "anti-racism" and equity, and allocated a percentage of funds to create a statewide coalition to help school districts offer grants for projects addressing "issues pertaining to interrupted learning and support groups that were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic (e.g., homeless, LGBQT [sic], marginalized communities)."
Audio and summary linked here.
A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
Summary and audio linked here.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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Tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber.
Criminal
This is why the American Rescue Plan got zero GOP votes in Congress — it was nothing but a Marxist wish-list and a bailout for blue states and cities
“issues pertaining to interrupted learning and support groups that were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic”
This narrative is so tiring, the same narrative that (homeless, LGBQT [sic], marginalized communities, are always negatively and disproportionately affected. They’re all martyrs of systemic oppression. Everyone suffered though the pandemic.