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For educators, there’s something about this back-to-school season that feels familiar.

It’s “the amount of information that’s coming to you all at once,” said Jeremy Vidito, chief financial officer for the Detroit schools. On a recent webinar , he laid out a litany of hardships, including figuring out “what’s true, what’s not. Emergency orders. Budget cuts.”

Leaders felt similar uncertainty in the fall of 2020, when the pandemic forced them to scramble to educate, feed and transport students. But this time, as 47 million students return to school in the coming weeks, the source of the unease is the federal government. The Tru

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