{"id":1996432,"date":"2023-08-10T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-covid-19-committee-demands-records-on-how-school-relief-funds-were-spent\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:19:01","slug":"house-covid-19-committee-demands-records-on-how-school-relief-funds-were-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-covid-19-committee-demands-records-on-how-school-relief-funds-were-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 committee seeks school relief fund expenditure records."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-covid-19-committee-demands-records-on-how-school-relief-funds-were-spent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The House Select Subcommittee \u2063on the Coronavirus Pandemic Demands Transparency on \u2064COVID-19 Relief Funds for Schools<\/h2>\n<p>The House \u200bSelect Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic\u2064 has taken action to hold the Department of Education accountable. In a letter addressed to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona,\u2063 subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup\u2063 (R-OH) demanded records on the disbursement of COVID-19 \u2063emergency relief funds \u2063to schools.<\/p>\n<h3>Addressing Learning\u200d Loss and Allocation of Funds<\/h3>\n<p>Chairman Wenstrup&#8217;s letter emphasized the urgent \u200bneed to\u2063 address the extensive learning loss caused by the pandemic. Notably, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-urges-congress-to-toughen-penalties-for-executives-of-failed-banks\/\" title=\"Biden Urges Congress to Toughen Penalties for Executives of Failed Banks\">highlighted recent reports<\/a> \u200dthat \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-education-department-decides-racially-segregated-groups-are-not-discriminatory\/\" title=\"Biden Education Department Decides Racially Segregated Groups Are Not Discriminatory\">eighth-grade students<\/a>\u200d at LeBron James&#8217;s I Promise Academy \u200chad failed to meet math proficiency standards.<\/p>\n<p>Wenstrup acknowledged that Congress had allocated over $190\u200d billion in aid to schools since the \u2064beginning of the pandemic. This funding aimed to\u200c facilitate safe school reopenings and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-covid-19-committee-demands-records-on-how-school-relief-funds-were-spent\/\" title=\"COVID-19 committee seeks school relief fund expenditure records.\">mitigate pandemic-related learning\u2064 deficits<\/a>. \u2064He specifically mentioned the American Rescue Plan, which\u200c allocated $122 billion to this cause.<\/p>\n<p>However, concerns \u2064have been raised regarding the effectiveness of these\u200b programs and the extent to\u200b which the \u200cfunds have truly benefited students. With mounting evidence of academic failures and struggles to \u200crecover from pandemic-related setbacks, it is \u200ccrucial to evaluate the impact of these relief funds.<\/p>\n<h3>Transparency and Accountability<\/h3>\n<p>Wenstrup highlighted \u200cthe lack of restrictions\u200c on how the Elementary and\u2064 Secondary School Emergency Relief funds could be \u200dspent. This has led to instances where schools\u2064 have used the funds for extravagant purchases, \u2063including athletic fields \u2062and promoting specific ideological agendas.<\/p>\n<p>The letter demands that the Department of Education provide the committee with &#8220;recipient data collection forms&#8221; from 2020, \u20622021, and 2022 by Aug. 24. This information is essential\u200c for \u200cCongress \u200bto conduct a thorough assessment and ensure that the academic shortcomings \u2062of American students are properly addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman\u2064 Wenstrup emphasized the importance of timely data release to hold \u2062the Department accountable for the administration of the funds. It is crucial to understand the extent of any \u2064misuse of funds by State Educational Agencies (SEAs) or Local Educational Agencies \u2063(LEAs) and\u2063 its impact on students.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner has reached out to the Department of Education for comment on\u2062 this matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic requested the Department of Education to provide records on COVID-19 relief fund distribution to schools. Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, seeking an account of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1996433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}