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Stadler, Zahava – New America, 2023
Between March 2020 and March 2021, Congress allocated $189.5 billion for a new Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund. The arrival of this federal aid was a lifeline for schools attempting to serve students amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This funding was distributed in a very different manner, and with very different rules and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, COVID-19, Pandemics
Dan Goldhaber; Grace Falken – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
We estimate the effects of federal pandemic-relief funding (ESSER III) for K12 schools on district-level student achievement growth in 2023. We rely on student test achievement data from over 5,000 school districts across 30 states. Our novel identification strategy exploits variation in ESSER attributable to its allocation rules and their…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, COVID-19, Federal Aid, Grants
Council of the Great City Schools, 2021
The purpose of this document is to lay out a framework for the nation's large city school systems to spend new COVID-19 federal dollars strategically and effectively. It sets out overarching goals for the use of funds; articulates broad investment strategies; defines principles for the effective use of funds; articulates things that school…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Emergency Programs, Federal Aid, Pandemics