Tarrant students struggled during COVID-19 pandemic. How much did districts spend to help?
Speech pathologist Amelia Plumlee works with students April 2, 2024, at Wood Elementary. About 25% of students at the school are in the special education program. (Dang Le | Arlington Report)
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Tarrant County school districts quickly learned after the pandemic that their students needed mental health support before academic recovery could start.
To do that, they used $47.5 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to help students, according to an analysis from the Rev Partnership, a coalition of Tarrant County superintendents focused on improving public education.
Larger amounts of the funds were spent on more academic-related items.
The Rev Partnership recently released figures on how Tarrant County school districts used their $615.8 million in one-time federal relief funds. The superintendents discussed the use of funds — which expire in September — during a meeting earlier this spring.
So far, districts have spent $456.8 million. They have until Sept. 30 to use the remaining funds or return the money to the federal government.
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