President-elect Joe Biden proposed $170B in Education COVID Relief funding: An Overview

On Thursday, January 14 2021 President- Elect Joe Biden announced a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package, including $170 billion for education. The proposal has a heavy emphasis on K-12 school reopening. Read the full breakdown here: 

Scale up testing to stop the spread of COVID, safely reopen schools, and protect at-risk populations. While we are working to vaccinate the population, we need to focus on what we know works. Testing is a critical strategy for controlling the spread of COVID-19, yet the U.S. is still not using it effectively. Despite innovations to improve testing, tests are still not widely available. The president-elect’s plan invests $50 billion in a massive expansion of testing, providing funds for the purchase of rapid tests, investments to expand lab capacity, and support to help schools and local governments implement regular testing protocols. Expanded testing will ensure that schools can implement regular testing to support safe reopening; that vulnerable settings like prisons and long-term care facilities can regularly test their populations; and that any American can get a test for free when they need one.

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