The Safe Return to Class Fund was a federal program providing funding to provinces and territories to support the safe reopening of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Funds supported measures like improved ventilation, personal protective equipment, additional cleaning, and adaptations for physical distancing. While education is provincial jurisdiction and schools are operated by school boards, municipalities were sometimes involved through shared facilities, supporting public health measures, or providing spaces for additional classrooms. The fund represented federal support for education during the pandemic, flowing to provinces which allocated funding to school boards. Similar pandemic-related federal funding supported various provincial and municipal pandemic responses.