Why haven’t Alabama schools spent rest of $3 billion in COVID money?

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Why haven’t Alabama schools spent rest of $3 billion in COVID money?

By Trisha Powell Crain Alabama’s K-12 school officials are in the final leg of a 42-month effort to spend the remainder of $3 billion in federal pandemic relief money, before deadlines pass and leftovers go [...]

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