ESSER Resources
- ESSER & GEER FAQs – December 2022
- Preguntas frequentes de ESSER y GEER en espanol – Diciembre 2022
- Davis Bacon Overview Factsheet – 4.27.2023
- Resumen de la Ley Davis-Bacon en Español – 4.27.2023
- ESSER Fund FAQs – 5.8.2020
- CARES Act Liquidation Extension Requests FAQs
- Letter to the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) regarding Energy Conservation Standards and ESSER Funds (2.28.2022)
- FAQs related to use of funds for COVID-19 Vaccinations and Testing can be found here.
- FAQs related to use of ARP and other pandemic relief funds to provide incentives to students to get the COVID-19 vaccination can be found here. Information on incentives to parents or guardians whose children participate in school-based COVID-19 screening testing can be found here.
- FAQs related to use funds for student transportation, including to address the current regional and national challenges with hiring and retaining a sufficient number of school bus drivers, can be found here.
- AmeriCorps’ guide “Leveraging National Service in Your Schools: A Superintendent’s/Principal’s Toolkit to Utilizing National Service Resources” can found here.
- Additional guidance on using ESSER and GEER funds to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic can be found here.
- Preventing and Responding to Crime and Promoting Public Safety: Released on June 17, this guidance on How American Rescue Plan Funds Can Prevent and Respond to Crime and Promote Public Safety describes how ARP ESSER and other ESSER and GEER funds may be used to prevent and respond to violence and to increase public safety this summer and beyond.
- Supporting Full-Service Community Schools and Related Strategies: The attached Frequently Asked Questions (English or Español) guide was designed to support state and local efforts to use ARP ESSER funds and other ESSER funds to advance or start an evidence-based community school strategy.
- ARP ESSER Letter to Chief State School Officers and School Superintendents from Secretary Cardona about the importance of using ARP ESSER and other federal resources to address educator shortages (12.16.2021)
- ARP ESSER Letter to Chief State School Officers and School Superintendents from Secretaries Cardona and Becerra about the importance of vaccinations for children ages five to eleven years old (11.8.2021)
- Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Time: Released on August 31, 2021, this guidance on Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Timeshares how ARP Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) funds provide an opportunity to make investments that respond to the urgent needs of students in ways that address gaps in educational opportunity and build local capacity to sustain meaningful and effective teaching and learning.
- Supporting School Districts in Timely Investment of American Rescue Plan Act Funds: Released on September 2, 2021, the following factsheet provides clarity on how LEAs can utilize American Rescue Plan funds to support the safe reopening of school for in-person instruction.
- SGR Grantee Learning Series: FFATA and APR Webinar (8.23.2023)
- MOEffort and MOEquity Webinar (8.16.2023)
- Grantee Learning Series – Grant Administration (07.26.2023)
- Grantee Learning Series – Monitoring (08.02.2023)
- Grantee Learning Series – Technical Assistance, Resources, and Communications (08.09.2023)
- Davis-Bacon Webinar (04.26.2023)
- CARES Act Late Liquidation and Closeout Webinar (03.09.2023)
- Recording – English
- Recording – Spanish
- Slides
- Transcript – English
- Transcript – Spanish
- ESSER and GEER FAQs Webinar (12.21.2022)
- ESSER and GEER Liquidation Extension Webinar (10.30.2022)
- ARP ESSER Webinar on LEA-level Maintenance of Equity Reporting Requirements (6.9.2022)
- Additional HVAC Use of Funds slides, shared during the June 17, 2021, office hour, are available here.
- On February 23, 2022, the Department hosted a webinar: ARP ESSER Monitoring Update and Quarterly Reviews. The presentation presented an overview of current monitoring efforts and timelines & topics for 2022 quarterly reviews.
- Recording (02.23.2022)
- Slides (02.23.2022)
- Transcript (02.23.2022)
- On September 2, 2021, the Department hosted a webinar: Using COVID-Relief Funds for Facility Upgrades, Renovations, and Construction. In addition to Departmental guidance on uses of funds for construction, renovations and upgrades, the webinar included speakers and resources related to indoor air quality from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Maine Department of Education and Salt Lake City School District.
- ARP ESSER State Plan Webinar Recording (04.29.2021, Note: Viewers can click on the CC button to see (or not see) the Webinar Recording closed captioning)
- ARP ESSER overview
- State Plan application overview
- ARP ESSER State Plan Office Hour Slides (05.06.2021)
- State Plan application and review process
- Allocation and obligation of funds
- LEA Plans
- ARP ESSER State Plan Office Hours Slides (05.13.2021)
- State Plan template and review process
- Reporting requirements
- ARP ESSER State Plan Office Hours Slides (05.20.2021)
- State Plan template and review process
- Allocation of funds
- Reporting requirements
- ARP ESSER State Plan Office Hours Slides (05.27.2021)
- Use of funds guidance
- State Plan template
- ARP ESSER State Plan Office Hours Slides (06.03.2021)
- Submission and review process
- State Plan template
- Use of funds guidance
- On July 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) regarding equitable services under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. (The rule is available at: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-07-01/pdf/2020-14224.pdf). On September 4, 2020, in NAACP v. DeVos, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion and an order vacating the IFR. Accordingly, the IFR is no longer in effect.
Think an institution is misusing or abusing ED funds? Do not let CARES Act Funding for Schools and Students end up in the wrong hands. File a complaint online with our Inspector General (OIG) or call their Hotline.
- File a complaint online with the OIG Here
- Contact information for the OIG Hotline Here (1-800-MIS-USED; 1-800-647-8733)
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