Arizona schools need to take action and spend their federal coronavirus relief money. Superintendent Tom Horne says this needs to be done to help students academically.
Identified as the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds, the money had been given to schools to address learning loss and support mental health.
Horne says that his office will push the schools to spend the money.
“They have extra money available and they ask us, ‘Could we please stop calling them?’ And we say, ‘No.’ We’re going to keep nagging them until they get that money spent. We don’t want it to be reverting to the federal government,” he said.
He says there is a course of action to be taken.
“They just have to obligate it, which means, you know, enter into contracts and then they’ll have more time to spend it.”
He also says schools need to enter contracts by the end of the month so that they are able to keep the money in the first place.
