House GOP Probes Possible Misuse of COVID Relief Funds to Promote ‘Left-Leaning’ Agendas in Schools

Three congressional committees are investigating whether $190 billion in relief funding for elementary and secondary schools after the COVID-19 pandemic was used to advance social agendas rather than learning loss, as intended by lawmakers.
The House Committees on Oversight and Accountability and Education and the Workforce, as well as the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, asked Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to produce a trove of documents related to the approval, disbursement, and oversight of money from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund.
“Rather than use ESSER funds to help students recover from learning losses, some states and school districts that kept schools closed appear to have spent ESSER funds to push favored social agendas,” committee chairs James Comer (R-Ky.), Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) wrote in a March 3 letter (pdf)….}