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The Roosevelt administration did channel federal assistance to schools through various New Deal agencies. When rural schools began to close for want of funding, Harry Hopkins's Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) paid $14 million in teachers' salaries to keep the schools open, ultimately helping more than four thousand schools and 150,000 pupils. Moreover, when state governments, such as that of Arkansas, threatened school funding, the New Dealers threatened to remove federal assistance for nonschool projects, forcing the states to support their schools. The federal government also funded schools by paying their debts through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). Between 1933 and 1939 the federal government subsidized 70 percent of all school construction, and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) painted and restored tens of thousands of schools. Ever sensitive to the dangerous politics of school reform, however, the Roosevelt administration repeatedly refused to finance education directly or engage in sweeping national...
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