Schools are starting to spend Covid relief dollars. Here's what they're prioritizing.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The think tank found that more than half of the districts and charter schools in the data sample planned to use the funds to hire or reward teachers, guidance counselors and academic specialists.
53% : But there is also a lot of discretion in the way the more than 13,000 school districts around the country can spend the money, said Bree Dusseault, a principal at the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

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