The roughly $190 billion the federal government pumped into schools in response to COVID-19 ultimately did little to aid academic recovery, according to two new studies.
The billions of dollars represent the single largest injection of money into the U.S. education system, but two separate studies released Wednesday concluded that students experienced only a modest amount of academic recovery as a result.
Some of the money was used to advance left-wing ideologies such as critical race theory and gender theory in the classroom. Other schools spent their pandemic funds on non-academic expenses such as refreshing sports fields to synthetic turf and updating sound systems in school gymnasiums and theaters. In two of the more bizarre cases, one school district purchased an ice cream truck with its pandemic relief funds, while another financed accommodations at Las Vegas’s ritzy Caesars Palace.
The studies come as Elementary and…
