RACINE â Racine Unified School Districtâs current plan for offering summer school this year is opening only three schools for the 4K-8 program: Gifford, Jerstad-Agerholm and Mitchell.
The Racine Branch of the NAACP thinks this is a problem for inner city communities. None of the schools are walking distance from those communities, and the districtâs current plan doesnât offer bus service to those schools, they said.
At a news conference Wednesday night at Racine Branch headquarters, 1633 Racine St., the Branch called for RUSD to take immediate steps to solve those problems.
They outlined the following demands:
Open Julian Thomas Elementary School on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive and Knapp Elementary School on 17th Street.
Alabama schools have until June 1 to explain how they’ll spend $900 million in COVID funds
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That is the second of three buckets of federal aid that state Board of Education member Wayne Reynolds called a “windfall” during Thursday’s work session in Montgomery. It comes on top of a CARES Act allocation last year.
The first round of money, known as the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief or ESSER I funding, provided $216 million for Alabama schools. It was designed to reimburse schools for expenses when schools closed in March 2020 and to help them reopen in August; most schools reported plans to spend money on remote learning programs, cleaning and PPE supplies and stipends for staff. Districts have until September 2022 to spend ESSER I funds.
GARY â The Gary Community School Corp. shared plans Thursday for $71 million in federal funding the district received earlier this year.Â
The district was awarded $46.8 million from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and $27.3 million from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, which the district plans to put to work immediately, it said in a press release.Â
At the top of the district s five-priority spending plan is academics, with the district set to use the funds toward a STEM Summer Camp aimed at supporting student learning, a news release states.Â
The summer camp will begin June 7 and is set to be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The camp is open to students entering grades K-12 and will focus on robotics, coding and core subjects.Â
Ashland School Board accepts grant money for COVID expenses
May 12, 2021ASHLAND At their May 4 meeting, the Ashland School Board accepted grant money for Coronavirus expenses, discussed future school improvements to be funded by such grants, and approved a Student Council proposal for an outdoor classroom, the eighth grade class trip and the calendar for the next school year. They also learned of school activities. The School Board held a public hearing on accepting unanticipated grant money from the second round of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief program, also known as ESSER II, for expenses due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The ESSER II allocation to the Ashland School District is $270,983.75. Part of that sum will go to the local Supervisory Union to cover the associated administrative costs. The Board voted unanimously to accept the grant. Superintendent Mary Moriarty also discussed the next grant round ESSER III, money which has yet to be released. The
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Students board a bus at Hinks Elementary School on Wednesday afternoon.
ALPENA Alpena Public Schools parents have until Friday to sign their child or children up for summer school.
The district will be offering summer school opportunities to K-12 students, including two sessions of “A Summer of Literacy” for students in kindergarten to second grade, “A Summer of S.T.E.A.M.” for students in third through eighth grades, and a credit recovery program for students in ninth through 12th grades.
“The overall goal of the program of our summer opportunities is to keep kids engaged, to keep their minds active, and to work on key standards along the way,” Assistant Superintendent for K-12 Curriculum Meaghan Gauthier said. “It’s not to fully assess their learning gaps, and monitor those and provide personalized instruction, it really is to engage kids and keep the fun of learning through a variety of experiences.