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Washington ARP ESSER State Plan Highlights

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Washington ARP ESSER State Plan Highlights says Washington's total ARP ESSER allocation is $1,853,788,024, with $1,235,000,714 released on March 24, 2021 and $ 618,787,310 released on November 24, 2021. It lists top priorities, supporting student and staff well-being, improving student engagement and attendance, and accelerating learning opportunities. The highlights say all of Washington's schools are offering full-time in-person instruction this school year and that the Governor's office required all school employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, leading to a nearly 90 percent vaccination rate of all school staff.

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“Washington ARP ESSER State Plan Highlights.” Original at www.ed.gov. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/department-of-education-pdf-www-ed-gov-a69ae845a1/, SHA-256 42303a1c05cbd708b3bc3ee4ff481e31674c1d574ab070272e957dbc729ea4b8.

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                           Washington ARP ESSER State Plan Highlights

Total ARP ESSER allocation for Washington: $1,853,788,024
ARP ESSER funding released to Washington on March 24, 2021: $1,235,000,714
ARP ESSER funding released to Washington on November 24, 2021: $ 618,787,310
2020-2021 Preliminary Statewide Enrollment: 1,087,354

Top Priorities for Washington:
       • Supporting student and staff well-being
       • Improving student engagement and attendance
       • Accelerating learning opportunities for students

Highlights of Washington’s Plan:
       • Returning to In-Person Learning in 2021: Meeting the expectation set by the Washington
           State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), all of Washington’s schools are
           offering full-time in-person instruction to all students this school year.

        •   Safely Reopening Schools and Sustaining Safe Operations: The Governor’s office
            required all school employees in Washington to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19,
            leading to a nearly 90 percent vaccination rate of all school staff. To expand access to the
            vaccine for staff and students, OSPI worked with a statewide healthcare system, which
            augmented local community vaccination initiatives.

        •   Addressing the Academic Impact of Lost Instructional Time: OSPI grants will provide
            schools with resources to adopt universal screening and provide individualized evidence-
            based instruction to increase student engagement, content mastery, credit attainment, and
            graduation rates, particularly for students most impacted by the pandemic. Additional
            investments of the State set-aside include programs to improve mathematics and literacy
            instruction, youth reengagement and outreach efforts, expanding access to Native education
            curriculum, and support for students in the foster care system.

        •   Investing in Expanded Afterschool Programs: OSPI will use a targeted grant award
            process to allocate ARP ESSER funds to existing afterschool 21st Century Community
            Learning Center programs, particularly to address the disproportionate impact of the COVID
            pandemic on particular student groups. Prior to funding, OSPI will review programs’
            implementation of evidence-based afterschool programming, expansion of services to new
            sites, and communities not currently served.

        •   Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Mental Health Needs: OSPI will fund the
            Social Emotional Learning Professional Learning Network and Mitigating Effects of
            Intergenerational Trauma initiative to focus on the specific needs of American Indian and
            Alaska Native (AI/AN) children, youth, and families, and to strengthen understanding of
            social-emotional learning efforts. Additionally, OSPI will fund integrated content and
            evidence-based instructional strategies which will provide integrated instruction using social
            emotional learning, trauma-informed and culturally responsive pedagogical strategies
            integrated across content areas.

        •   Supporting the Educator Workforce: OSPI will invest ARP ESSER funds to create and
            support multiple pathways to recruit and retain future AI/AN educators. The State plan notes
            the underrepresentation of AI/AN educators serving the state’s Tribal and non-Tribal students
    and that AI/AN learners historically face educational opportunity gaps. Additionally, OSPI
    will provide funding to expand resources and training on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

•   When Washington LEA Use of Funds Plans were Due: June 1, 2021

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