If you give two hoots about the quality of education for your children or grand kids, as they say in the biz, this one’s for you.
It’s difficult to use the word “silver-lining” in the same sentence with the term “COVID 19” but if there was one, at least on the education front, it would have to be the $3.7 billion avalanche of emergency federal government money that cascaded into every school district in the state.
Suddenly after years of being unable to provide so-called enrichment services for students, school boards were hiring more social workers, mental health counselors, reading and math tutors, along with more products to sanitize classroom, gyms, and cafeterias from the virus while at the same time installing state-of-the-art ventilation systems to suck the bugs out of the buildings.
