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From shutdown to shut out:<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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How America\u2019s low-income students continue to be hurt by Covid policy<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MARCH 2023
<\/b>Jessica Hockett, PhD, Senior Policy Analyst
National Opportunity Project<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s been three years since the government\u2019s response to Covid upended Americans\u2019 lives. And as time progresses, it is increasingly clear who will pay the steepest price for the pandemic: children.<\/p>\n

To facilitate the reopening of K-12 schools, Congress made available nearly $200 billion through federal Covid relief starting in 2020. About 97% of this funding went to government-run public schools. After a push from stakeholders to acknowledge the harm of government-mandated closures on nonpublic schools, Congress created Emergency Assistance to Nonpublic Schools (EANS) and allocated $5.5 billion in aid to nonpublic schools with low-income students severely impacted by Covid.<\/p>\n

However, today more than $736 million of this aid has failed to reach the schools and students as intended.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The National Opportunity Project has produced the nation\u2019s first comprehensive look at the EANS program, with a focus on whether states have been able to get the money to the students and schools for which it was intended.<\/p>\n

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What’s at stake: 27 states have at least $736 million in federal funds that governors can divert away from K-12 nonpublic schools<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At least $157 million that states didn\u2019t allocate to nonpublic schools has already ended up back in the hands of governors who reallocated the money to other public and private entities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether these and similar grants made with leftover EANS money are good uses of federal funds in general matters far less than the issue of dollars intended for K-12 nonpublic schools going elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Examples include:<\/strong><\/p>\n