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After an extended and significant debate on Tuesday, April 6, the DC Council approved a delay in the Mayor’s submission of the FY2022 District budget to May 27, 2021. This is not the first time the budget has been delayed. The previous deadline was April 22, which itself was an extension from the original March 31, 2021 deadline for submission.
The Mayor argued that her administration needed more time to formulate the budget because it is still waiting for guidance from the federal government with respect to new federal funds the District will receive. With the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 on March 11, 2021, the District is anticipating that there will be more than $2.2 billion allocated to the city for recovery efforts. However, the District is still waiting on guidance regarding when the money will be transmitted to the city and what restrictions may be imposed on spending the federal funds.
The Lafayette Parish School System is seeking more teachers for summer school this year.
At a rate of $210 per day, they could earn $3,500 or more in June and July, LPSS announced Tuesday.
The district is in need of all teachers, including:
elementary (K-5)
high school (English language arts, math, science, social studies and EdGenuity)
all special education
The deadline to apply is Thursday. Those interested can complete an application that can be found online through the district s website, lpssonline.com, or Facebook page. Applications are to be turned into the principal.
Lafayette s summer accelerated learning program for elementary and middle school students will be June 3 through July 2. High-schoolers will go June 2-25.
The district currently has approximately $1.4 million left out of its second of two initial receipts of ESSER funds.
Stensland told the board Monday to expect just under another $3.8 million to come from a third allocation of ESSER funds approximately $798,000 of which would have to be set aside for learning loss recovery. She told board members she expects to learn more details on the third wave of aid from the state this week.
Outside of ESSER funds, the district also plans to use attrition such as through early retirements, not filling some unneeded positions or filling other openings but without new hires to achieve the rest of the savings it needs to make ends meet.
The second and third rounds of ESSER funding, amounting respectively to $5.5 billion and $12.4 billion, have not yet been distributed to Texas public school districts. Morath said this is because the Legislature is awaiting guidance from the federal government on certain conditions tied to the funding.
According to the two most recent rounds of ESSER funding, states are required to maintain the same percentage of funding to support education allocated prior to the pandemic through fiscal year 2022-23. Morath said Texas faces a unique challenge here because House Bill 3 passed in 2019 infused a net $4.4 billion of new revenue year over year into school district budgets in FY 2019-20.