Schools to receive $81M in CARES Act grants
Joshua Echols takes National Career Readiness Certificate testing at Carver High School on April, 3, 2019. Tennessee school systems will receive a total of $50 million in technology grants to be used for items such as wi-fi devices, laptops and other equipment needed to help reopen. (Daily Memphian file)
The state is doling out $81 million in grants to K-12 schools, colleges and universities to prepare for a safe reopening this August in the COVID-19 climate.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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