Meanwhile our public schools struggle to find enough funds to open our schools safely. Families with means flock to on line and private schools that they feel are safer.Epic, the on line charter school that is going to court now because they're accused of padding their student list to the point that they stole 10 million dollars from the state,is now the biggest school system in Oklahoma.

There's always more than one way to win a war.

The Trump administration is exploiting the pandemic to siphon billions of dollars to private and religious schools. A new analysis from Americans United for Separation of Church and State reveals that the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has provided huge sums of federal funds to private and religious schools. This recovery funding for private schools is disproportionately large in comparison to recovery funding Congress allocated under the CARES Act’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund for public school districts. Billions of PPP dollars have gone to private schools, including the wealthiest
private schools, private schools eligible for or receiving state funds from private school voucher programs, and private schools that discriminate against students.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has long considered public funding for religious schools, which comprise 67% of all American private schools, to be both bad policy and contrary to Constitutional intent. Americans United’s analysis of the data released by the Small Business Administration on PPP loans of $150,000 or greater reveals that Congress has already given private religious and secular schools funding totaling between $2.67 billion and $6.47 billion. PPP funding comes in the form of forgivable loans, which were intended to provide financial assistance to small businesses and nonprofits to recover from the pandemic.
As long as the private schools meet certain criteria, like using the loan for payroll and operational expenses, the loans will be forgiven by the government in their entirety, essentially
turning the loans into grants.