District Spending of One-Time Funds for Educational Recovery

Julien Lafortune, Laura Hill, Niu Gao, Joseph Herrera, Emmanuel Prunty, Darriya Starr, Bruce Fuller, Julian Betts, Karna Malaviya, and Jonathan Isler

To address COVID-19 disruptions to education, federal and state programs directed billions in stimulus aid to K–12 schools. These programs allocated greater funding to lower-income and high-need districts—and California districts applied their early funds to health, safety, and technology. More recently, spending has prioritized learning recovery.

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Supported with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation, the Stuart Foundation, and the US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences.

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On Tuesday, July 11, PPIC researcher Julien Lafortune will present key findings from the report; coauthor Bruce Fuller, professor at UC Berkeley, will lead a panel discussion.

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