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Colorado ESSER Report: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund

Colorado ESSER Report: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund

Posted 05/11/2023 - 10:07am

The Council of Chief State School Officers asked state education chiefs how COVID relief funds had made an impact on their state. Colorado Education Commissioner Katy Anthes explains in this video how she learned of the funds' effectiveness when... Read More

Tags: American Rescue Plan (ARP), Use of Funds

YouTube video of Katy Anthes


Posted 05/05/2023 - 3:13pm

A $2 million ESSER grant is funding high-impact tutoring in Denver Public Schools that is resulting in higher-than-expected growth on students’ statewide assessments.

“We weren't looking for just scores. We were also looking at... Read More

Tags: ESSER III, High-Impact Tutoring Program

DPS is offering free tutoring for students in ng. Free for kids in kindergarten through 12th grade thanks to COVID relief funds.


Posted 04/26/2023 - 2:45pm

Theatre SilCo in Silverthorne, formerly Lake Dillon Theatre Company, is filling an urgent need for after-school care in Summit County with $528,432 in grant funding from the ESSER III... Read More

Tags: ESSER Expanded Learning Opportunities, ESSER III, Summer and Afterschool Programs, Use of Funds

Theater SilCo in Summit County offers a robust afterschool program thanks to ESSER III funding.


Posted 04/24/2023 - 9:34am

A grant that has allowed AXIS International Academy in Fort Collins to hire college students as tutors has helped 91% percent of students in the program improve their math skills in just one year, according to school officials.

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Tags: High-Impact Tutoring Program

Tutor Brenna Freer works with students in French class at AXIS International Academy charter school.


Posted 04/10/2023 - 11:27am

Kwiyagat Community Academy, the first Colorado charter school on an American Indian reservation, is using $55,000 from the state’s High-Impact... Read More

Tags: ESSER III, High-Impact Tutoring Program, State Reserve, Use of Funds

Students from Kwiyagat Community Academy write sounds they hear in the sand during a reading session with tutor Jessica Magie.


Posted 04/03/2023 - 12:46pm

Project Launch, a full-day summer program that is a collaboration between St. Vrain Valley Schools and four rural districts, is using a $2... Read More

Tags: Allocations, ESSER Expanded Learning Opportunities, ESSER III, Summer and Afterschool Programs, Use of Funds

Students work at Project Launch, a program that will benefit from the ESSER Expanded Learning Opportunities grant.


Posted 03/21/2023 - 2:50pm

Rural school districts in Colorado are being seen as a big part of the solution when it comes to the coming labor shortage that is being predicted in a wide variety of employment areas, including construction, education, health care,... Read More

Tags: ESSER III, Rural Coaction Program

Students from the Plateau School District in Peetz, a small, rural school on the northeast plains, help remodel their classroom as part of their new construction program funded by the Northeast Colorado BOCES Rural Coaction grant.


Posted 03/17/2023 - 10:16am

The Colorado Department of Education is using $125,000 in ESSER funding to pay for a summer learning series for teachers called CoLabs that will be offered in June in Grand Junction, Greeley and Pueblo.

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Tags: Allocations, Local Priorities, Use of Funds

CoLab logo


Posted 03/13/2023 - 8:26am

The Summer Arts & Culture Camp at Museo de las Americas, a program for low-income youth in downtown Denver for the past 13 years, has a waiting list 20 to 30 students every year... Read More

Tags: ESSER Expanded Learning Opportunities, ESSER III, State Reserve, Summer and Afterschool Programs, Use of Funds

Students work on a project at the Summer Arts & Culture Camp at Museo de las Americas.


Posted 03/06/2023 - 9:55am

For many urban school districts, students are able to tap into state-of-the-art career technical facilities such as ... Read More

Tags: Allocations, American Rescue Plan (ARP), Education Workforce Program, ESSER III, Local Priorities, Rural Coaction Program

From left, Left to right, Caleb Poss, James Vorce and Tucker Stahn, students in the Akron R-1 School District, are benefiting from the Rural Coaction Grant that is available to school districts and BOCES across the state.


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