Derivita's commitment to our school and district partners includes helping administrators and educators understand and navigate federal educational funding.
If you are researching federal funding in your school district, this guide to K-12 education federal funding can help.
The federal government provides funding to schools through its primary agency, the U.S. Department of Education
The main sources of federal education funding programs for states and school communities and the principal purpose of each program are:
Federal funding comes from two kinds of grants, and different rules govern how the funds may be spent:
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The one-time ESSER funds are key to helping your K–12 school community with in-person, distance, or hybrid learning and building sustainable plans to accelerate learning. Over $190 billion in ESSER funds have been awarded to states and districts through the three relief packages.
ARP ACT: ARP ESSER (ESSER III) FUND
$122.8B awarded (approximate)
Provides additional emergency relief funding to States and school districts to safely reopen schools, address learning loss through the implementations of evidence-based interventions and activities for students’ academic, social and emotional needs, purchase education technology and offer summer learning, extended day/year programs and afterschool programs.
CRRSA ACT: ESSER II FUND
$54.3B awarded (approximate)
Provides additional emergency relief funding to states and school districts to address and measure learning loss, purchase education technology, offer summer and after-school programs, and safely re-open schools.
CARES ACT: ESSER I FUND
$13.2B awarded (approximate)
Provides emergency relief funding opportunities for immediate needs, such as tools and resources for distance education that address low-income students’ unique needs, students with disabilities, ELs, and other high-need students.
Each emergency relief package created a separate fund or program to meet the most critical needs of PreK-12 students and teachers in eligible non-public schools. Over $8 billion has been directed to the USED’s Education Stabilization Fund (ESF) for eligible non-public schools through equitable services and/or assistance from State Governors and/or the respective State Education Agency (SEA).
ARP ACT: EANS II
$2.75B awarded (approximate)
The ARP EANS II grant program’s purpose is to extend the services and assistance provided to eligible non-public elementary and secondary schools to address the impact that COVID-19 has had, and continues to have, on non-public school students and teachers. This is a highly competitive grant program.
CRRSA ACT: GEER II FUNDS | EANS I
$4.05B awarded (approximate)
($1.3B GEER II, $2.75B EANS I)
Under CRRSA, $4.05 billion was allocated GEER II. From those funds, $2.75 billion was allocated specifically for non-public schools through the EANS I grant program. The remaining $1.3 billion of funds are to be used to supplement the GEER II funds awarded to each State and at the governor’s discretion.
The EANS I grant program’s purpose is to provide services or assistance to eligible non-public schools to address the impact that the COVID-19 has had, and continues to have, on eligible non-public school students and teachers in the State.
CARES ACT: ESSER I FUND | GEER I FUND
$2.95B awarded (approximate)
Non-public schools are eligible to receive funds under both the ESSER I and GEER I as LEAs are required to provide equitable services to students and teachers in non-public schools. An LEA must determine the proportional share available to provide equitable services to non-public school students and teachers in accordance with Title I under ESEA.
Federal funding and its processes can be complex, as there are 30+ federal grant programs for education. Primarily, the federal government provides funding to all states on an annual basis through formula grants. Here are some of the most common funds used to support Derivita software and professional development offerings.
For more information on annual federal formula grants, click here.
PROGRAM | PROGRAM SNAPSHOT | ANNUAL FUNDS |
---|---|---|
Title I: Part A | Economically Disadvantaged | $16B |
Title II: Part A | Professional Development | $2B |
Title III: Part A | English Language Learners | $737M |
Title IV: Part A | Student Support and Academic Achievement | $1.1B |
IDEA | Special Education and Students with Disabilities | $13.4B |
Perkins/CTE | Career and Technical Education | $1.26B |
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