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Ganim plans to flat fund schools. Bridgeport school officials, advocates plead for more money.
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Acting Schools Superintendent Michael Testani presents the Bridgeport BOE budget request at Blackham School. Feb. 13, 2020Linda Conner Lambeck
BRIDGEPORT Bridgeport’s proposed municipal budget flat-funds education. School officials and their advocates are sounding the alarm, saying that will hurt the city’s children.
Budget season is in full swing, and education was top of list this week for the City Council. Though the school district requested a $6 million increase to the budget last month, Mayor Joe Ganim included no additional funds for education, leaving the council to decide whether to push back or not.
ALBION â Nothing has been set in stone, but the Central Noble School Corp. has a tentative plan of what to do with its Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund monies â add staff.
Congress created the fund to address the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the website curriculumassociates.com, Indiana received $214.4 million in emergency ESSER I funds, another $888.1 million as part of the ESSER II funding, and an additional $1.9 billion as part of the ESSER III funding.
During Tuesdayâs regularly scheduled school board meeting, corporation business manager Ty Osenbaugh told the board the corporation had spent its ESSER I funding of $172,000. According to Osenbaugh, the lionâs share of that money went to pay the substitute teachers the corporation had to use due to teacher absences in the wake of the virus.
On April 21, the U.S. Department of Education released the state plan application template for the remaining tranche of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESESR) funds authorized under the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021. Last month, states received access to two-thirds of their ARP ESSER allocation a total of $81 billion. | Human Services, Education &