City Council Agenda and Packet 2021 04 13 SP

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social, and emotional needs. School districts and States are required to use at least 20 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of ESSER funds to implement evidence -based interventions to address learning loss. States are also required to use an additional 1 percent of their state -level ESSER funds for evidence -based summer enrichment programs and an additional 1 percent of their state -level ESSER funds for evidence -based comprehensive afterschool programs. Additionally, ARP includes $800 million in dedicated funding for the identification and provision of wraparound services for students experiencing homelessness and over $3 billion in funding for programs authorized under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. ARP also includes $2.75 billion for States to provide services to non-public schools that serve a significant percentage of students from low-income families. A "maintenance of effort" provision will help to protect against K-12 education cuts at the state and local level and a "maintenance of equity" requirement will ensure higher -poverty school districts and schools do not shoulder a disproportionate amount of any state or local education cuts that do occur. • Higher Ed: ARPA provides $39.6 billion to colleges and universities and their students. At least half of such funding must be spent on emergency financial aid grants to students to help them with college costs and basic needs like food, housing, and health care, with the other half available to institutions of higher education to defray lost revenue and increased costs from declining enrollment, the transition to online learning, closures of revenue -producing services and facilities, and COVID-19 testing, vaccination, PPE, and classroom retrofits. Institutions have shed over 650,000 jobs since the pandemic began, the fastest in recorded history, often hitting low -wage workers and staff of color hardest. A "maintenance of effort" provision will help to protect against higher education cuts at the state and local level. • Child Care and Head Start: ARPA includes $39 billion for child care, including nearly $24 billion for Child Care Stabilization grants and nearly $15 billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program. States must use Child Care Stabilization funds to award subgrants to qualified child care providers that are either open or temporarily closed to help support their operations during the pandemic. Subgrants can be used for expenses such as personnel expenses, rent and mortgage payments, cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment, mental health services for children and staff, and other goods and services necessary to maintain or resume operations of the child care provider. Subgrant recipients must certify that they will abide by state and local public health guidance, continue to pay their staff full wages, and provide copayment and tuition relief to families, to the extent possible, as a condition of subgrant funding. States may reserve up to 10 percent of grant funds for supply building, administrative, and technical assistance costs. The Child Care Stabilization funding will help sustain an estimated 449,000 child care providers, serving a total of 7.3 million children, for 6 months. The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds can be used flexibly by states, including for child care subsidies. ARPA gives states the authority to expand eligibility for child care assistance to essential workers, regardless of their income. The CCDBG funds will expand child care assistance to an estimated 7