Nationally, school districts and charter schools have poured billions of federal pandemic relief dollars into staffing. Most states don’t detail that spending precisely, but North Carolina does. A ...

Superintendents in the middle of the budget-setting process need to be aware: with the ESSER Funds soon to go away, reporting, supplementing, and storytelling their pandemic-related expenses will be ...

The Beaufort County school district in South Carolina invested a sizable chunk of its federal COVID relief funds in nearly a dozen “extended learning sites”—churches and other local organizations ...

With looming deadlines for K-12 districts to liquidate American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds, some school leaders are looking for creative ways to spend ...

Say your boss gives you an unexpected bonus at work. Would you save the money, make those home upgrades you’ve been putting off or splurge on a nice vacation? School districts had to make similar ...

Last fall, education headlines across the country expressed alarm at the slow pace at which the nation’s K–12 schools were spending their $190 billion in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency ...

Charleston, S.C. (WCIV) — The Charleston County School District is trying to come up with tens of millions of dollars. The biggest challenge regarding the Fiscal Year 2025 budget is sunsetting ESSER ...

(TNS) — Finding the best fit for ESSER III funds is a balancing act unique to each school system in the Midstate. Short for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, ESSER is the term school ...

As the deadline for obligating Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds approaches on Sept. 30, school districts nationwide face the challenge of optimizing these resources to ...

Houston ISD is eliminating $300 million in initiatives that helped support students and recruit teachers last academic year as federal COVID-19 relief funds expire. The federal government began ...

LIMA — The federal government provided three rounds of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds to school districts across the nation. The first round, ESSER I, has to be spent ...