Camille Fassett, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Whitney Anderson wheels a recently purchased air scrubber through a classroom in advance of the school year at the E.N. White School in Holyoke, Mass., on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Schools across the U.S. are about to start a new year amid a flood of federal money larger than they've ever seen before, an infusion of pandemic relief aid that is four times the amount the U.S. Department of Education sends to K-12 schools in a typical year. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Few strings on schools’ pandemic windfall

by Collin Binkley Associated Press, Geoff Mulvihill Associated Press, Camille Fassett Associated Press, and Larry Fenn Associated PressAugust 26, 2021

As the federal government releases historic sums of pandemic aid to the nation’s schools, it’s urging them to dream big and invest in seismic changes that will benefit students for generations to come. But many districts say they have more urgent…