An Academic Booster Award program at Greeneview High School this past year.
Local school districts have received several rounds of COVID relief funding in the past year, with more funding on the way. But how does that money help in a year when so much of the education process has been upended for parents, students, and teachers?
To find out, we spoke to Isaac Seevers, superintendent of Greeneview Local School District in Greene County.
In this conversation he recaps the challenges his district faced in the last year — and what’s ahead:
Isaac Seevers: First, back in the spring during the shutdown, we received some rural support for our district that we utilized on purchasing computers and at home like Internet devices, some some hot spots for students to take home. And then we utilize we got the first round of what was ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds) money, a little over one hundred thousand dollars. And we use that for, you know, providing our online schooling option this year, the virtual option that we provided for students. We needed to update some of our furniture at our elementary school in order to accomplish that social distancing and then real expenses, you know, paper towels and bottle fillers instead of water fountains, cleaning supplies. You know, all of those things are really increased expenses that we weren't planning on.