The 2021-22 enacted state budget includes language requiring local education agencies, such as school districts, that receive funding from the Federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund allocated by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 {ARP-ESSER) to post on its website a plan by school year of how these funds will be spent.

New York has been allocated nearly $9 billion in ARP-ESSER funds, with a minimum of $8.09 billion (90 percent) going to local education agencies, including public schools. Dundee Central School District has been allocated $5,081,670.

Districts are required to prioritize spending on non-recurring expenses in the following areas:

• Safely returning students to in-person instruction;
• Maximizing in-person instruction time;
• Operating schools and meeting the needs of students;
• Purchasing educational technology;
• Addressing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on students, including the impacts of interrupted instruction and learning loss and the impacts on low-income students, children with disabilities, English Language Learners, and students experiencing homelessness;
• Implementing evidence-based strategies to meet students' social, emotional, mental health, and academic needs;
•  Offering evidence-based summer, afterschool, and other extended learning and enrichment programs; and
•  Supporting early childhood education.

Districts must identify any programs and services that will continue beyond the availability of these federal funds and how local funds will be used moving forward in order to minimize disruption to core academic and other school programs.

This District. The draft plan presented below contains recommendations received from the district Board of Education, faculty, staff, and administration.

Should you have questions about the funding Dundee CSD received through the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 or its intended uses please email the Superintendent of Schools