Aside from shuttering school buildings and forcing students and teachers to adopt an entirely different model of learning practically overnight, the coronavirus pandemic put a stranglehold on the local tax revenues that tend to provide a lion’s share of public school funding.
And while many states have indicated cuts are on the way, how deep they may be — or may get in coming years — remains to be seen. To make matters worse, many states’ education budgets still hadn’t fully recovered from hits taken during the Great Recession.
