More than $25 million in federal coronavirus relief funding to Moore County Schools will cover wide-ranging expenses over the next three years: from activity buses and teacher assistants to new running tracks at Pinecrest and North Moore high schools.
Administrators told the school board on Tuesday that those needs and many others intersect with the directive to spend that money on preventing the transmission of COVID-19 and recovering from the pandemicâs effects over the last year.
The district has until May 7 to apply to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction with an outline of how it plans to use its coronavirus relief funds. The Moore County Board of Education got its first view of the proposed plan in a special meeting this week.
Coatesville Area school board approved the preliminary 2021-22 budget during the April 27 board meeting in a 7-1 vote with Mary Ann Harris opposed.
The preliminary budget has not changed from the version presented to the finance committee two weeks ago, but officials expect to revise the spending plan between now and final approval at a special meeting June 8.
The budget shows expenses of $187 million and revenues of $178.2 million with no tax increase. By increasing the tax rate 3.9% â the amount the state allows the district under the Act 1 index â the budget gap can be narrowed to $5.6 million.
This raises the real estate tax rate from 38.2018 mills to 39.6917. For a property assessed at $100,000, this translates to a tax increase of $149.
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Maricopa High School basketball players gather around masked head coach Paul Gretkierewicz during a March 2021 game. Photo by Sammantha Herbaugh
A variety of COVID-19 mitigation measures allowed the Maricopa Unified School District to reopen classrooms and enable students to learn in person.
Many of those expensive measures were paid for with federal stimulus funds.
According to MUSD business manager Jacob Harmon, the district has received $7.2 million in federal stimulus monies over the past year, with another $9.5 million pledged but not yet received.
All told, MUSD will receive a total of $16.7 million to address needs arising from the pandemic. The initial payment came in the form of a $1.5 million Enrollment Stabilization Grant, Harmon said.
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Outside AISD s Liberal Arts and Science Academy in October 2020 (Photo by Jana Birchum)
After purchasing millions of dollars worth of laptops, iPads, cleaning equipment, and other supplies to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic on its own dime,
Austin ISD will soon receive hundreds of millions in
COVID-19 relief funds from the federal government.
The
$11.2 billion in federal funding for
K-12 education relief to Texas schools, including a
$155.8 million boost for Austin ISD. This funding is a part of
ESSER III, the
Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief portion of the latest of three federal coronavirus relief acts.
Approximately two-thirds of the ESSER III funding, including $104 million for AISD, will be granted to districts soon. The final third, including around $51 million of money intended for Austin, must be held until the