American Rescue Plan (ARP) ESSER Reports
On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act was signed into law. The US Department of Education is providing an additional $121.9 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER III Fund). This legislation will award these grants to state educational agencies (SEAs) for the purpose of providing local educational agencies (LEAs) with emergency relief funds to address the impact that COVID-19 has had, and continues to have, on elementary and secondary schools across the nation.
January 2022 - March 2022
August 2021 - December 2021
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) ESSER Reports
On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was signed into law. As part of the CARES Act, Congress set aside approximately $13.2 billion of the $30.75 billion allotted to the Education Stabilization Fund for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund. The US Department of Education will award these grants to state educational agencies (SEAs) for the purpose of providing local educational agencies (LEAs) with emergency relief funds to address the impact that COVID-19 has had, and continues to have, on elementary and secondary schools across the nation.
South Carolina will receive $216,311,158 in ESSER funds from the CARES Act, of which 90 percent ($194,680,042) will flow through to school districts with amounts determined in proportion to the amount of Title I, Part A funds they received in Summer 2019 from funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The remaining funds will be used for state-level activities to address issues caused by COVID-19.
January 2022 - March 2022
July 2021 - December 2021
Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Emergency Assistance to Non-public Schools (EANS)
January 2022 - March 2022
September 2021 - December 2021
Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) ESSER II Reports
Section 311(b) of the Corona Virus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSA) requires the United States Department of Education (USED) to allocate the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief II Fund (ESSER II Fund) based on the proportion that each state received under Title I, Part A in the most recent fiscal year. However, Section 1122(c)(3) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) prohibits the USED from considering the Title I, Part A hold harmless provisions in ESEA Section 1122 in calculating state or local allocations for any other program administered by the Secretary, including the ESSER Fund. Therefore, to determine the ESSER II Fund allocations, the USED utilized the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2020 state shares of Title I, Part A allocations without the application of the hold harmless provisions in ESEA Section 1122. The CRRSA Act requires that the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) allocate no less than 90 percent of the grant funds awarded to the state as subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) (including charter schools that are LEAs) in proportion to the amount of funds that the LEAs received under Title I, Part A of the ESEA of 1965 (reauthorized as the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA) based upon FFY 2020. Please be mindful that the FFY 2020 year is the 2021 South Carolina state fiscal year (SFY). Therefore, ESSER II allocations are based on districts’ 2020 Title I allocation.
January 2022 - March 2022
July 2021 - December 2021
