K-12 Education Has Faced Inadequate Funding for Decades

For all the rhetoric about the importance of in-person learning for K-12 students, policymakers have failed to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on education and provide the necessary funding to state and local governments to make it safe to do so. From the Economic Policy webinar: Coronavirus Pandemic Poses Major Challenges to U.S. Students and Teachers—and Exacerbates Existing Education Inequities.

From the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC.