By Kristal Kuykendall
1/10/2025 – EdTech Chronicle
Nearly $200 billion in federal COVID relief funds for the nation’s public schools has officially dried up, with the final deadline for obligating the funds now passed. School administrators and district leaders across the nation are preparing for a 2024-25 that’s smaller budget than the past four years’ have been — and many are facing decisions on what programs will be scaled back or eliminated.
A new survey of superintendents shows that tech tools used in classroom learning are not likely to be first on the chopping block; districts are more likely to cut tutoring vendors or after-school programs first, and non-teaching support staff hired during the pandemic will likely be high on the list as well.
With tighter budgets, though, schools are likely to pare down spending on edtech tools sooner or later. And that means, at a minimum, considering which edtech tools are foundational in the modern connected classroom, and how to use those tools most efficiently and with the biggest impact on learning outcomes….Read what edtech here in this EdTech Chronicle article.