70% of all public schools receive Title I funding (federal aid). Title I funding is meant to support the learning of low income children and children with other learning accessibility issues.

To threaten the funding means asking states, districts or parents to decide between the lives of their most vulnerable students and essential funding. Guess what States that do not take on the bulk of their public education finance are going to decide?

Texas has already forced a decision by asking working class parents (the majority)—many of whom have no means of childcare—whether they “want” online instruction or to send their kids to school. How cutting-edge of @teainfo to do this even before a threat to cut federal funds!

But overall, states are not allowed to run deficits, & covid19 has decimated budgets. Some state PubEd finance formulas require in-person attendance for funding. So unless the federal gov commits to more $ than before, many districts will need in-person instructions to stay open.

Threatening to pull federal funding is even more genocidal than not providing additional aid already was. Yes, GENOCIDAL.

“How would the federal government pay for that?” Hmm maybe they could invest the same billions that they do to save multi billion $ corporations on saving CHILDRENS LIVES!