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Old 08-19-2020, 12:27 PM   #82
sterlingice
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Originally Posted by Edward64 View Post
My wife hypothesized (not confirmed) the reason why schools in her district are pushing for students to come back in Sep is so they don't lose any federal funds (e.g. maintenance of school). Anyone know if this is true?

If true, this seems very short sighted for public schools.

TEA is basically playing this game of chicken with the school districts about that here in Texas. They only gave the option of temporary online waivers about a month ago and that was after posturing that everyone needed to be in school in August before cases started their post-Memorial Day explosion in the state.

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