More federal money coming from USDOE

Guam will be receiving more than $140 million from the U.S. Department of Education to address COVID impact. Speaking today on KUAM's The Link, Lieutenant Governor Josh Tenorio says $110 million will go directly to GDOE and $33 million will be under the governor's authority.

He was to meet with education superintendent Jon Fernandez to discuss how they can use the money to stabilize education.

"Our agreement has always been to align what we're doing with the other education agencies, and to try and figure out how to give them the tools to figure out, the other idea I have is whether we need to hire additional health care staff to help the teachers, certified nurse assistance things like that, I mean sorry, to help the nurses, because a lot of the nurses are telling me that in addition to this pandemic they're normally the ones that intercept and catch a lot of things including cps reports. A lot of the CPS complaints come from schools," he said.

Tenorio said the latest executive order specifically mentions that social workers are authorized to conduct home visits.

One of the main purposes is to catch up on child abuse and welfare cases, as the normal follow-up has been hampered by the pandemic.