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COVID-era funding for schools is coming to an end. Congress passed more than $190 billion in aid for schools in 2020 and 2021, called the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, or ...
Rutherford County school officials contend three new charter schools will cost the district up to $15 million in funding.
Teachers lashed out at President Trump for his recent executive order stripping federal funding from K-12 public schools that teach critical race theory.
Since 2008, states have reduced their school funding from taxes by 12%, the most pronounced drop on record. [15] The majority of targeted school funding reforms have been in response to court orders, often due to lawsuits. [16] Despite some efforts to improve school funding, 60% of schools report that their facilities need repair. [17]
The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, also known as ESSER. [1] is a $190 billion program created by the U.S. federal government's economic stimulus response bills, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (), Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP Act), passed by the 116th and 117th U.S. Congress.
Title I of the act provides for federal funding of schools in low income areas. In 2011, Title I made up 43% of federal elementary and secondary education spending, and the majority of school districts receive Title I funding. [16] As of 2021, federal funding pays for about 8% of all expenses in primary and secondary education.
Two Knox County schools will gain additional federal funding for the upcoming school year and two will lose their Title I funding entirely. A shift in economic demographics is behind the changes.
The bill creates a new school financing system for K-12 education in the State of Ohio, overhauling the state's school funding system that the Ohio Supreme Court found unconstitutional four times beginning with the original DeRolph decision in 1997. HB 1 was signed into law on July 1, 2021 as a part of the biennial state operating budget.