The Gov has $48 Million To Hand Out!!!!

    

 That sounds like a lot of money---and it is, except when you consider it will be part of the $7.2 Billion Alabama Education Budget.

     Where did the money come from? From the feds, the source of most of Alabama's funding. Yet Governors, including Ivey, always make it sound as if they wrote a personal check!     




      And there is increasing pressure to share a large portion of the cash with private/religious schools. From The N.Y. Times:

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, defiant amid criticism that she is using the coronavirus to pursue a long-sought agenda, said she would force public school districts to spend a large portion of federal rescue funding on private school students, regardless of income.

Ms. DeVos announced the measure in a letter to the Council of Chief State School Officers, which represents state education chiefs, defending her position on how education funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, should be spent.

But, unless I'm missing something, it appears there is no money earmarked for private schools.



As they say, the devil is in the details, so we'll see.