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Jim Hill High School principal Bobby Brown, points out one of the outdated air-condition units that are installed throughout the Jackson, Miss., school, Jan. 12, 2023. A litany of infrastructure issues in the nearly 60-year-old school make for tough choices on spending COVID recovery funds on infrastructure or academics. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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For poor schools, building repairs zap COVID relief money
By SHARON LURYE - Associated Press
Mon,02/20/23-8:10AM , 485 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The air-conditioning gave out as students returned from summer break last year to Jim Hill High School in Jackson, Mississippi, forcing them to learn in sweltering heat. By Thanksgiving, students were huddling under blankets because the heat wasn’t working.
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