California schools forced to spend $2 billion of COVID-relief funds to address learning loss after lawsuit

California is being forced to spend $2 billion to help students recover from learning loss due to school shutdowns after a legal settlement.

According to non-profit law firm Public Counsel, the state of California will spend some of the remaining COVID-19 relief funds on tutoring and other efforts to help students recover from learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Nearly every school in California was locked down for in-person learning and students attended school remotely from home during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

"Between March and June of 2020, neither of my children learned anything in school," one of the plaintiffs in the case, Kelly R., a Los Angeles native, said.