Reports on How School Systems Spent Federal COVID Aid Vary in ...

What happened to the $190 billion schools got in COVID aid?

Schools got $190 billion in COVID relief from the feds. What's happened to it? · District COVID spending plans are findable, but not all are ...

Maryland received about $3 million in COVID-19 American Rescue Plan's Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) funds. The ...

How Federal Pandemic Aid Impacted Schools

K–12 schools received nearly $190 billion in federal relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, 90% of which went directly to local districts.

Burst in covid spending helped students recover, researchers find

But despite $190 billion sent to K-12 schools, academic achievement lagged behind pre-pandemic levels. 9 min.

Education Stabilization Fund

... school districts, colleges, and universities have used ESF grant funding. ... The Education Stabilization Fund was established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief ...

School Districts Reported Spending Initial COVID Relief Funds on ...

School districts had spent about $60 billion in federal COVID emergency relief funds by the end of the 2021-2022 school year.

Was districts' ESSER spending effective? Federal watchdog says ...

A GAO report says districts prioritized spending of COVID-19 emergency funds based on community input, financial need, state policies and other influences.

Lessons From K-12 Education Relief Aid To Improve Federally ...

The federal COVID-19 relief aid distributed to states for elementary and secondary education represented the largest one-time funding in U.S. ...

Size: More Money Than Ever Before - New America

One large district received about $250 million in ESSER dollars. Its lead budget official said that once the district allocated funding for environmental health ...

COVID relief money improved student test scores, two new studies find

That means federal money helped reduce inequality, Reardon said. The analysis also found that school districts that had spent a larger share of ...

What New School Spending Data Show About a Coming Fiscal Cliff

Between 2020 and 2021, Congress approved close to $200 billion in emergency aid for public schools . That translated to the federal government ...

The Federal Government Gave Billions to America's Schools for ...

In the provisional federal reports that categorize how aid money is spent, some of the largest districts in the nation marked all of their aid ...

With ESSER expiration, COVID-19 spending prepares for finale

Even though Congress allocated an unprecedented $189.5 billion in one-time funding for school districts to spend on recovery from pandemic ...

End of Pandemic Funding for Schools Requires States and Districts ...

School districts nationwide are reporting budget deficits and weighing layoffs, spending cuts, and service reductions. In West Virginia, for ...

Public schools wasted COVID funds, Biden's education budget ...

These federal dollars are set to expire in September, when school districts must spend or obligate the bulk of relief aid. But nearly three ...

K-12 Federal COVID Relief: What Can We Learn from Doing School ...

Each aid package was larger than the last, and in total, Congress allocated $189.5 billion in ESSER dollars. From the start of the ESSER I spending period to ...

Were Federal COVID Relief Funds for Schools Enough? Nora E ...

And the amount of per-pupil federal aid that districts received varied considerably across districts: all three ESSER packages ... “School District Spending of ...

Covid-Aid Spending Trends by City, Suburban, Rural School Districts

Regardless of geographic setting, more than half of all school districts and charter entities in the sample intend to spend relief funds on ...

GAO report shows how US schools spent pandemic relief funds ...

A new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) concludes that, by the end of the 2021-22 school year, US school districts ...

New Report Explains how Covid Aid is Helping K-12 Schools after ...

The Covid pandemic was the worst public health crisis in generations. In response, the federal government provided an unprecedented amount of ...