It makes sense that school districts across the country are careful about spending money. Dollars are hard to find, and school administrators are rightfully in the habit of planning and justifying every expenditure. But when school districts have spent, on average, only 15 cents of every federal dollar they’ve received in emergency relief as a deadline to use it or lose it approaches in September 2024, it may be time for urgency to overtake caution. The money I’m talking about is the most recent outlay of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, commonly known as ESSER funds. This $122 billion of pandemic relief money, made available in March 2021 as part of the American Rescue Plan to help reopen schools, addresses mental health and gets kids caught up on learning they had lost. This money is a rare opportunity to not only help kids bridge the learning loss gap, but also help them vault forward. Most California districts, particularly larger ones, are outperforming those in the rest of the country in spending the federal relief funds, but not all. San Diego, for example, has spent only 11.3% of its most recent outlay, and several smaller districts have spent none […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
K&X Design and Investment Technology, LLC
Invest The Invisible Impact
