From Fox News [1]:
“This is the kind of thing that surprises us precisely at 0 percent,” said Jonathan Bydlak, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute. “Every time so much money comes out of Washington, frankly without any real situation or oversight. . . you’re going to have those cases. “
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Sperling said that even though only 12% of ARPA’s budget was officially spent, according to government figures, a significant majority had already committed to spending on school districts. Sperling also said that arrp adoption reversed a chimney in school districts [2] and motivated them to spend another COVID-related federal budget that they had not yet allocated “ten times” faster.
Bydlak said such an argument “sounds a bit empty” on the part of “the same other people who have largely struggled” against efforts to reallocate ARPA’s budget elsewhere. Riedl was more direct.
“If they were concerned that schools wouldn’t spend their own money fast enough, they may have only demanded that schools spend their money temporarily instead of giving them another $130 billion,” he said. “This is a senseless misuse of taxpayers’ money. “
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