ORLANDO, Fla. – With just weeks left until the fall semester is set to begin, many still don’t know how their student will be learning this fall due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic but a recent study shows parents do expect an increase in how much the start of the school year will cost them.According to the National Retail Federation’s annual Back-to-School Spending Survey, consumers expect to spend a record amount of money to prepare students for school and college this year, due largely in part to e-learning plans in place across the country as the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.
continues to rise.The survey of 7,481 consumers was conducted July 1-8 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.1 percentage points, according to.