text:  did this improve student achievement? Did this money improve student achievement? And the short answer was yes, it did. School districts that got more money saw students make more learning gains. And this is a particularly big deal because students fell dramatically behind during the pandemic. So to put that in context, in one of the studies, they looked at two sets of districts, one set that got a lot of COVID relief and the other set that got less. The set that got more recovered about 4%.