Federal ESSER Data Collection Compliance
A $3.8 million fund was designated by the Montana Legislature through House Bill 362. Leveraging the State's Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Funding, to enhance and expand student access to quality summer programming across the state. The ESSER ARP Summer grant application is anticipated to be available under the ESSER link on the OPI website by the end of April. The application will be similar to the ESSER ARP afterschool program application. Our goal is to make award announcements in May. Afterschool and summer school ESSER grants both have data collection requirements. Funding for both afterschool and summer ESSER ARP grants can be used through October 2024.
All Safe Return plans must be updated no less than every six months, until September 30, 2023. Districts must seek public input and take the input into account in the development and revision of the plans. An updated plan needs to be posted on the school website at the URL link that the district provided to the OPI on the ESSER III e-grant application. If a district website is not available, the updated plan needs to be emailed to Wendi Fawns, OPI ESSER/EANS Director. The following are update checkpoints: July 2021, December 2021, June 2022, December 2022, and June 2023. In an email dated November 16, 2021, to Districts Authorized Representatives, instructions were detailed and links to each District Plan were provided.
Going forward and in recognition of staffing changes, OPI grant managers would like to request district clerks update their egrant Authorized Representative via the egrant link under Training/E Grant Security User Guide.
Questions? Contact:
Wendi Fawns, ESSER/EANS Director
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