American Rescue Plan - ESSER III
The American Rescue Plan Act, 2021 (ARP Act or ARPA) provides an additional $122 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund III (ESSER III or ARP ESSER). $1.1 billion in funding will be awarded to Oregon. ESSER III Grants will be awarded to local education agencies in the proportion they received funds under Part A of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in fiscal year 2020. ESSER III Fund grants can be used to reimburse eligible expenses incurred between March 13, 2020 and September 30, 2024.
USED requires a District plan that outlines:
- Meaningful community engagement to inform the use of funds. Includes a focus on supporting students disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
- District use of funds to address the impact. At least 20% of funds used for evidence-based interventions to address unfinished learning.
ODE expects that plans will continue to evolve over time.
Want to learn more about the ESSER III Grants? Click here to read the fact sheet.
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Integrated Planning Tool
This tool is designed to help districts align strategies and desired outcomes to concrete activities and their associated expenditures.
It includes outcomes and sections for the essential information, and at their discretion, districts can add sections, columns, or layer in information relevant to their district and community.
Outcomes
Outcomes can be described as the changes you are trying to cause. They might be changes in student achievement and growth; changes in policy and practice; changes in student participation and access to programs and courses; changes in adult behavior, practices, or beliefs; etc.
The ARP Act identifies overarching outcomes for ESSER III, which are prepopulated for district use. Districts may also choose to add outcomes to reflect more focused changes they hope will happen over the next three years by executing their ESSER III District Plan.
Are you having the impact you were hoping for on the people or groups you are engaged or partnering with? What are you seeing and learning? What would you like to see happening?
Strategies
A district's ESSER III District Plan may focus on one or multiple (more than one) strategies over a 1-3 year period. Strategies are the plans designed to achieve and reach the intended outcome(s).
Activities
The activities are items that support the strategies, which may include providing/implementing an intervention. There are multiple lines to enter planned activities and a dropdown box to connect the activity to the most tightly linked strategy.
Year one activities, strategies, and budgeted or estimated costs are required in this form. If year two and three are known, districts may also complete those years.
The date ranges help track the anticipated number of years the activity will span and provides space to project both first year costs as well as consecutive year projected costs. These amounts are totaled and set in line with the strategies above.
The final table indicates the requirement of the 20%+ designation for activities around unfinished learning. As the activity table and budget summary table are completed, the 20%+ requirement and progress toward that requirement will be auto-filled.
Supporting Documents
ESSER III Plan (226 KB) 