The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund allocates $190 billion for K–12 schools in the United States—but the funds have an expiration date of 2024. Education districts have left $130 billion on the table so far, McKinsey partner Jake Bryant and coauthors found, due to challenges with navigating the compliance standards and a talent shortage that is leaving positions unfilled.
![School districts have faced numerous challenges in deploying federal stimulus dollars.](/~/media/mckinsey/featured%20insights/charting%20the%20path%20to%20the%20next%20normal/2023/jan/gifs/cod-k-12-ex1-shrunk-timed.gif)
To read the article, see “Halftime for the K–12 stimulus: How are districts faring?,” November 2, 2022.