Education Spending for Underserved Stu dents, China’s Grand Strategy, and More

August 9, 2021

President Biden has proposed more than doubling the funding for Title I, a federal block grant targeting low-income students, the largest increase in funding in Title I’s history. Kenneth Shores, Hojung Lee, and Nell Wiliams explain how increased federal education funding can best meet the needs of public schools and close spending gaps that harm underserved students.

What are China’s ambitions, and does it have a grand strategy to achieve them? If it does, what is that strategy and what should the United States do about it? In an excerpt of his new book, Rush Doshi discusses the nature of U.S.-China competition and China’s long game for geopolitics.

Although the CDC’s eviction moratorium has been temporarily extended, approximately 6 million households are behind on their rent, while states and cities struggle to distribute the billions in rental assistance allocated by Congress last year. On an episode of The Current, Jenny Schuetz examines the challenges in getting aid to renters and how to better support both renters and landlords when eviction bans eventually expire.

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