At least 27 school districts across Michigan stand to lose as much as $42 million in pandemic aid after Linda McMahon, the newly appointed federal education secretary, told education leaders she would rescind a federal aid deadline extension.
McMahon issued a letter Friday to state education chiefs announcing the move, writing that “extending deadlines for COVID-related grants, which are in fact taxpayer funds, years after the COVID pandemic ended is not consistent with the Department’s priorities and thus not a worthwhile exercise of its discretion.”
Michigan state school Superintendent Michael Rice decried the action in a news release Monday…