{"id":247771,"date":"2021-03-18T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247771"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:15:53","slug":"biden-administration-to-give-10-billion-to-schools-for-covid-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-to-give-10-billion-to-schools-for-covid-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration To Give $10 Billion To Schools For COVID Testing"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fbiden-administration-to-give-10-billion-to-schools-for-covid-testing%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=247771&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1853.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it plans to give $10 billion to schools in order to help them expand COVID-19 testing and reopen classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The funds come from Biden\u2019s recently-passed COVID relief bill. Health and Human Services (HHS) put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2021\/03\/17\/biden-administration-invest-more-than-12-billion-expand-covid-19-testing.html\">statement<\/a> that described the use of the money for testing. It detailed how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will give the funds to states to help them create ways to test teachers, staff, and students.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC put forth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/community\/schools-childcare\/operation-strategy.html\">guidelines<\/a> on school reopening in February and included specifications on testing as an added layer of protection against COVID-19 spread in schools. The CDC recommended that schools use diagnostic testing if someone is showing symptoms of being infected with COVID-19 at school, as well as incorporating screening testing at some locations in order to prevent a potential spread.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from the administration explains that the funding will be sent out \u201cquickly as part of a strategy to help get schools open in the remaining months of this school year.\u201d It adds that on top of diagnostic testing, \u201cserial screening testing will help schools identify infected individuals without symptoms who may be contagious so that prompt action can be taken to prevent further transmission.\u201d The CDC, as well as local and state health departments, will assist schools in the effort to set up the testing structures since many schools might not have these programs in place.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/department-education-announces-american-rescue-plan-funds-all-50-states-puerto-rico-and-district-columbia-help-schools-reopen\">Department of Education<\/a> also released a detailed list of how $122 billion of the COVID relief act would be allocated to each state for schools to reopen. The funds can be used for more Wi-Fi hotspots, hiring workers, funding programs including summer school, and more. It can also be allocated in order to create ways \u201cto meet the social, emotional, mental health, and academic needs of students hit hardest by the pandemic, including through evidence-based interventions and critical services like community schools.\u201d The $122 billion going to schools does not include the $10 billion HHS is providing for testing.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education\u2019s announcement also comments on the importance of using the funds in order to increase equity. It stated that Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona \u201cunderscored the importance of advancing equity in states\u2019 efforts to reopen schools quickly and safely.\u201d American Rescue Plan funds can be used in order to \u201cequitably expand opportunities for students who need the funds most, including students from low-income backgrounds, students of color, students with disabilities, English learners, students experiencing homelessness, and students with inadequate access to technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On top of the $122 billion funding for schools, The Department of Education said that the COVID relief bill \u201cincludes $7.6 billion for special education, children and youth experiencing homelessness, Tribal educational agencies, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives, emergency assistance to non-public schools, and the Outlying Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), as well as $40 billion for higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2021\/03\/17\/biden-stimulus-money-give-schools-10-billion-covid-testing\/4734108001\/\">press release<\/a> on Wednesday, Cardona said, \u201cThe extraordinary steps the department is taking to get these resources to states quickly will allow schools to invest in mitigation strategies to get students back in the classroom and stay there, and address the many impacts this pandemic has had on students \u2014 especially those disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_pdf\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadPdf\" aria-label=\"Ed embedded PDF\" data-v-pdfurl=\"https:\/\/oese.ed.gov\/files\/2021\/03\/FINAL_ARP-ESSER-Methodology-and-Table.pdf\"><\/aside>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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