The era of ESSER—the three rounds of federal pandemic-relief aid for K-12 schools totaling more than $190 billion—is coming to a close. But for some districts, spending the remaining dollars may come ...

For some districts, it’s a million (or multi-million) dollar question: How will you pay for that when ESSER runs out? Schools nationwide received an unprecedented surge in federal funding during the ...

Kelly Taylor helps her kindergarten students with their classwork at Breakthrough Magnet School in Hartford. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror A vast number of Connecticut superintendents are ...

School districts across the United States invested some of their federal COVID relief funds into after-school and summer programs to help support their students’ academic and social-emotional needs.

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 ...

What difference did $190 billion make for student success coming out of the COVID-19 health crisis? Not as much as you might think. An ESSER spending analysis by Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University ...

Time is running out for school districts to spend their remaining federal COVID-relief dollars—unless districts successfully get approval to take a little longer. Districts must still commit all their ...

Most school districts don’t plan to take advantage of the chance to extend their deadline for spending the last—and largest—round of federal pandemic-relief aid, new survey data show. The Association ...

School districts that want more time to spend their third and final round of federal COVID-relief dollars on contract expenses should start contacting their state departments of education immediately, ...