Biden’s push for equity faces critical test amid shifting strategies to open schools
3/14/21
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from The Washington Post,
3/14/21:
It was one of the first proposals by the new White House to tackle what President Biden has said is a central goal of his administration: promoting racial equity through federal policy.
The idea: a competitive grant program for schools that would give the federal government a more central role in combating long-standing educational disparities that have been worsened by the pandemic.
But as Biden signed a coronavirus relief bill into law Thursday, his proposed “COVID-19 Educational Equity Gap Challenge Grant” was missing from the $130 billion allocated for schools — the result of pushback from advocates who warned it would have the opposite of its intended effect.
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