An investigation of ESSER spending by Georgetown University's Edunomics Lab, which researches education finance with the intent to inform policy, discovered that the majority of ESSER funds have gone ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

In recent years, many school districts have benefitted from Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) grants. These grants have assisted school districts and other academic institutions ...

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 ...

Curtiss Strietelmeier is a K–12 analyst for CDW•G. He spent two years as an elementary teacher, two years as an educational trainer, 10 years as a director of technology and six years as a school ...

After an unprecedented federal investment in K-12 education, school districts and states are racing to finalize plans for optimizing the final round of pandemic aid, even as they plunge into a future ...

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 ...