{"id":63172,"date":"2021-03-18T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=63172"},"modified":"2021-03-18T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:20:34","slug":"the-ous-critical-role-in-getting-relief-funding-for-latest-covid-relief-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/around-the-ou\/the-ous-critical-role-in-getting-relief-funding-for-latest-covid-relief-package\/","title":{"rendered":"The OU\u2019s Critical Role in Getting Relief Funding for Latest Covid Relief Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Schumer and a Teachers\u2019 Union Leader Secure Billions for Private Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The pandemic relief bill includes $2.75 billion for private schools. How it got there is an unlikely political tale, involving Orthodox Jewish lobbying, the Senate majority leader and a teachers\u2019 union president.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tucked into the $1.9 trillion pandemic rescue law is something of a surprise coming from a Democratic Congress and a president long seen as a champion of public education \u2014 nearly $3 billion earmarked for private schools.<\/p>\n<p>More surprising is who got it there: Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader whose loyalty to his constituents diverged from the wishes of his party, and Randi Weingarten, the leader of one of the nation\u2019s most powerful teachers\u2019 unions, who acknowledged that the federal government had an obligation to help all schools recover from the pandemic, even those who do not accept her group.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which came after Mr. Schumer was lobbied by the powerful Orthodox Jewish community in New York City, riled other Democratic leaders and public school advocates who have spent years beating back efforts by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to funnel federal money to private schools, including in the last two coronavirus relief bills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/13\/us\/politics\/schumer-weingarten-stimulus-private-schools.html\">Continue reading at the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schumer and a Teachers\u2019 Union Leader Secure Billions for Private Schools The pandemic relief bill includes $2.75 billion for private schools. 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Tucked into the $1.9 trillion pandemic rescue law is something of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-ou"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The OU\u2019s Critical Role in Getting Relief Funding for Latest Covid Relief Package - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/around-the-ou\/the-ous-critical-role-in-getting-relief-funding-for-latest-covid-relief-package\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The OU\u2019s Critical Role in Getting Relief Funding for Latest Covid Relief Package - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Schumer and a Teachers\u2019 Union Leader Secure Billions for Private Schools The pandemic relief bill includes $2.75 billion for private schools. 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