FLORIDA SCHOOLS ARE SLOW TO SPEND $693 MILLION IN FEDERAL CORONAVIRUS AID

From Tampa Bay Times
By Jeffrey S. Solochek
Published Oct. 22, 2020

As Florida schools prepared to reopen this fall, worries over whether they’d have adequate supplies to handle coronavirus complications topped the list of concerns.
To help cover the costs, which might otherwise cripple districts' already tight budgets, the federal government provided $693.2 million in CARES Act money to Florida schools. READ MORE