Some recommended reading

 A few things I've been reading that I'd recommend:

• You've no doubt caught some of the coverage of the Brockton Public Schools' financial woes (and ensuing city woes). The report from the independent third party can be found here. It's only a few pages long, and worth a review.
  
  
• The maddening lack of American society to really accept the pandemic has been particularly frustrating in a few places, education among them. Conor Williams (who I always find worth reading) does a really nice job with this in this piece in the 74:
  
  This odd unwillingness to recognize the pandemic as an unavoidable calamity is part of why we’re still endlessly relitigating pandemic mitigation measures in schools — closures, masks, quarantine policies, and the like. If, in 2019, we’d conducted a thought experiment, asking folks to predict the educational impact of a then-hypothetical viral pandemic that would be transmitted via breathing and would kill nearly 1.2 million Americans, most of us would agree that kids wouldn’t steam forth making the usual academic progress. 
  
  
  
• This year's "and then ESSER was gone" gets some coverage in K-12 Dive.