Schools generally do not provide many supplies to teachers. Given that many teachers do not receive basic supplies like paper from the schools, why do you think schools would purchase sanitation machines and tens of thousands of N95 masks?
>why do you think schools would purchase sanitation machines and tens of thousands of N95 masks?
Because the alternative of telling parents that their kids are either not going to school or will have to attend from home is a worse option to some school districts.
Schools are on some level accountable to the communities they serve. If the community wants to blow a five figure sum so that parents can have their kids in "daycare with learning" and be freed to go back to work then I see no reason the school or municipal government couldn't make that happen.
There's tens of thousands of schools in the US. They're not all operating under the same constraints and likewise the decisions they make with regard of if/when/how to reopen are gonna have a lot of variation.
