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District of Columbia ARP ESSER State Plan Highlights

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Summary sheet of highlights from the District of Columbia’s ARP ESSER state plan. It gives a total ARP ESSER allocation of $386,476,999, of which $257,544,769 was released on March 24, 2021 and $128,932,230 on July 7, 2021, and a 2020-2021 preliminary statewide enrollment of 94,573. The plan’s top priorities are safe reopening, student and staff well-being and accelerated learning; DC plans to serve all students in person, five days per week, in fall 2021, and LEAs must write health and safety plans. The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) plans high-impact tutoring supports and grants, expanded Out of School Time grants for summer and afterschool programs, and a wider Comprehensive School Based Behavioral Health System. The sheet gives August 24, 2021 as the due date for LEA Use of Funds Plans.

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“District of Columbia ARP ESSER State Plan Highlights.” Original at www.ed.gov. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/ppr-int-b3dc436d7e289b81-pdf-bfd2da2417/, SHA-256 e495ab86d1ceb2c1543a45c82d60944f042540219dd87031b1087649b5b06407.

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                      District of Columbia ARP ESSER State Plan Highlights
Total ARP ESSER allocation for the District of Columbia: $386,476,999
ARP ESSER funding released to the District of Columbia on March 24, 2021: $257,544,769
ARP ESSER funding released to the District of Columbia on July 7, 2021: $128,932,230
2020-2021 Preliminary Statewide Enrollment: 94,573


Top Priorities Within the District of Columbia’s Plan:
   • Safe reopening
   • Supporting student and staff well-being
   • Promoting accelerated learning

Highlights of the District of Columbia’s plan:
   •   Returning to In Person Learning in 2021 and Safely Reopening Schools and Sustaining Safe
       Operations: DC plans to serve all students in person, five days per week, in fall 2021. To address
       the challenges of returning to in-person instruction and to ensure a safe reopening, the Office of
       the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) is requiring local educational agencies (LEAs) to
       develop detailed health and safety plans that outline how each LEA will safely reopen in a way
       that aligns with guidance from the CDC, DC Department of Health, and OSSE.

   •   Addressing the Academic Impact of Lost Instructional Time: OSSE will invest in
       infrastructure supports such as citywide standards and foundational training for tutors to help
       ensure high-quality implementation of high-impact tutoring (HIT) as well as grants to schools and
       community-based organizations (CBOs) to help scale HIT models that meet OSSE’s standards,
       with a focus on high needs areas where there is currently limited supply (e.g., middle school
       math) and for populations who have experienced significant disruption due to COVID.

   •   Investing in Summer Learning and Expanding Afterschool Programs: OSSE will expand
       Out of School Time (OST) grants using American Rescue Plan ESSER funds in 2020-2021,
       which will be awarded to 501(c)3 organizations that provide summer learning and afterschool
       programs and have experience implementing evidence-based interventions. OSSE will collect
       participant level data from grantees and will evaluate academic performance of participants,
       including in-school attendance, afterschool attendance, and assessment data. All grantees that
       serve grades four or higher will be required to administer the Survey of Academic and Youth
       Outcomes (SAYO) to measure social and emotional learning.


   •   Staffing to Support Students’ Social, Emotional, and Mental Health Needs: The District of
       Columbia is expanding its Comprehensive School Based Behavioral Health System to expand
       access to clinical services in public schools across the District of Columbia. This support is to
       ensure schools are fully staffed with behavioral health providers to deliver multi-tiered behavioral
       health systems and supports which are essential to the well-being of students and help prevent
       more complex, lifelong behavioral health challenges. Behavioral health clinicians (social workers
       and professional counselors) assigned full-time to schools provide prevention and mental health
       promotion activities to the whole school community and deliver early intervention and clinical
       services to assigned students. OSSE is also encouraging and supporting LEAs to plan for how
       district-level ESSER allocations may be used to support staffing their schools and training their
       teams to meet students’ mental and physical health needs.

When the District of Columbia’s LEA Use of Funds Plans will be due: August 24, 2021

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