Kansas ARP ESSER State Plan Highlights

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Kansas ARP ESSER State Plan Highlights says Kansas's total ARP ESSER allocation is $831,170,555, with $553,723,455 released on March 24, 2021 and $277,447,100 released on July 22, 2021. It lists top priorities in the plan, addressing student, school, and district learning loss and providing summer enrichment opportunities. The highlights say all school districts began to provide in-person instruction opportunities on March 31, 2021 and that the Kansas State Department of Education will analyze 2020-2021 school year summative assessment results to help identify potential changes to student learning trends.

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                               Kansas ARP ESSER State Plan Highlights
Total ARP ESSER allocation for Kansas: $831,170,555
ARP ESSER funding released to Kansas on March 24, 2021: $553,723,455
ARP ESSER funding released to Kansas on July 22, 2021: $277,447,100
2020-2021 Preliminary Statewide Enrollment: 481,750
Top Priorities within Kansas’ plan:
   • Addressing student, school, and district learning loss
   • Providing summer enrichment opportunities


Highlights of Kansas’s Plan:
   •   Returning to In Person Learning in 2021: All school districts began to provide in-person
       instruction opportunities on March 31, 2021. The Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE)
       will continue to monitor school district learning environments at least through the 2021-22 school
       year, or as long as may be required by state and federal law.

   •   Safely Reopening Schools and Sustaining Safe Operations: KSDE developed a Navigating
       Next document to support school systems, which provided guidance for safely completing the
       2020-2021 school year while preparing for the start of the 2021-2022 school year. Additionally, a
       statewide tool will support districts in determining options for the use of ARP ESSER funds,
       scheduled to be expended in the future.

   •   Understanding the Impact of the Pandemic: KSDE will analyze 2020-2021 school year
       summative assessment results to help identify potential changes to student learning trends. KSDE
       is encouraging school districts to examine attendance data to identify students with prolonged
       periods of absence and lack of engagement during the 2020-2021 school year. Additionally,
       school districts are encouraged to review district-specific formative assessment tools to gain
       insight into student learning, as well as utilizing other information tools to understand students’
       social and emotional needs.

   •   Addressing the Academic Impact of Lost Instructional Time: KSDE has identified several
       evidence-based interventions to mitigate the academic impact of lost instructional time, including
       focusing on the science of teaching language and literacy skills, standards-based mathematics
       instruction, social-emotional learning, screening and progress monitoring, and evaluation of
       learning progress toward achievement of state curricular standards.

   •   Investing in Summer Learning and Expanded Afterschool Programs: KSDE will use ARP
       ESSER in the summer of 2021 funds to partner with youth-focused community organizations,
       such as the Boys & Girls Club, 4-H, and YMCA, to help recover lost instructional time in skill
       development due to the pandemic using evidence-based summer learning and enrichment
       programs and afterschool programs. KSDE also plans to offset the cost of admission for students
       to visit museums, zoos, historical sites, state parks, and the Kansas state fair to promote
       experiential learning opportunities during the summer.

   •   Staffing to Support Students’ and Educators’ Social, Emotional, and Mental Health Needs:
       ARP ESSER funding will allow KSDE to address a state-wide shortage in licensed professionals
       trained to address the documented social-emotional needs of students coming out of the
    pandemic. This will include a Grow Your Own Counselor model that encourages districts to
    identify candidates and employ them as student services coordinators while they develop their
    skills in an approved school counseling graduate program.

•   When Kansas’s LEA Use of Funds Plans will be due: August 20, 2021


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