Colorado ESSER Report: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund

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Posted 05/12/2023 - 10:36am

Jefferson County Public Schools is providing free mental health services for students at 155 schools throughout the county with about $1.5 million from the district’s third round of ESSER funds.

To provide the services, Jeffco... Read More

Tags: ESSER III, Mental Health Needs, Use of Funds

Colorado's Katy Anthes explains how COVID relief funds are making an impact

Posted 05/11/2023 - 10:07am

The Council of Chief State School Officers asked state education chiefs how COVID relief funds had made an impact on their state. Colorado Education Commissioner Katy Anthes explains in this video how she learned of the funds' effectiveness when... Read More

Tags: American Rescue Plan (ARP), Use of Funds

DPS uses high-impact tutoring grant to spur improvement

Posted 05/05/2023 - 3:13pm

A $2 million ESSER grant is funding high-impact tutoring in Denver Public Schools that is resulting in higher-than-expected growth on students’ statewide assessments.

“We weren't looking for just scores. We were also looking at... Read More

Tags: ESSER III, High-Impact Tutoring Program

Afterschool theater program uses ESSER funding

Posted 04/26/2023 - 2:45pm

Theatre SilCo in Silverthorne, formerly Lake Dillon Theatre Company, is filling an urgent need for after-school care in Summit County with $528,432 in grant funding from the ESSER III... Read More

Tags: ESSER Expanded Learning Opportunities, ESSER III, Summer and Afterschool Programs, Use of Funds

High Impact Tutoring Grant improves student performance at Fort Collins charter school

Posted 04/24/2023 - 9:34am

A grant that has allowed AXIS International Academy in Fort Collins to hire college students as tutors has helped 91% percent of students in the program improve their math skills in just one year, according to school officials.

Tags: High-Impact Tutoring Program

Kwiyagat Community Academy gets tutoring help thanks to ESSER grant

Posted 04/10/2023 - 11:27am

Kwiyagat Community Academy, the first Colorado charter school on an American Indian reservation, is using $55,000 from the state’s High-Impact... Read More

Tags: ESSER III, High-Impact Tutoring Program, State Reserve, Use of Funds

ESSER III grant helps support St. Vrain's Project Launch summer program

Posted 04/03/2023 - 12:46pm

Project Launch, a full-day summer program that is a collaboration between St. Vrain Valley Schools and four rural districts, is using a $2... Read More

Tags: Allocations, ESSER Expanded Learning Opportunities, ESSER III, Summer and Afterschool Programs, Use of Funds

Rural Coaction grant helps to collaboratively build and expand student pathway opportunities

Posted 03/21/2023 - 2:50pm

Rural school districts in Colorado are being seen as a big part of the solution when it comes to the coming labor shortage that is being predicted in a wide variety of employment areas, including construction, education, health care,... Read More

Tags: ESSER III, Rural Coaction Program

ESSER funds provide teachers with summer learning CoLabs

Posted 03/17/2023 - 10:16am

The Colorado Department of Education is using $125,000 in ESSER funding to pay for a summer learning series for teachers called CoLabs that will be offered in June in Grand Junction, Greeley and Pueblo.

Denver summer arts and culture program gets help from ESSER grant

Posted 03/13/2023 - 8:26am

The Summer Arts & Culture Camp at Museo de las Americas, a program for low-income youth in downtown Denver for the past 13 years, has a waiting list 20 to 30 students every year... Read More

Tags: ESSER Expanded Learning Opportunities, ESSER III, State Reserve, Summer and Afterschool Programs, Use of Funds