Education

Flush with COVID-19 aid, schools steer funding to sports

One Wisconsin school district built a new football field. In Iowa, a high school weight room is getting a renovation. Another in Kentucky is replacing two outdoor tracks — all of this funded by the billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief Congress sent to schools this year.

Miami school district misused $6 million for driver’s ed programs, cars in horrible condition, report says

Miami-Dade County education officials misused $6 million intended for driver's education programs funded by traffic ticket fines that never went toward driving lessons at most of the schools it claimed taught such courses and failed to maintain a fleet of training cars that were found to be in horrendous conditions, including one that had served as an iguana nest, according to a report released earlier this month.