Follow the Money - NC ESSER
North Carolina ESSER Highlights:
Total ARP ESSER allocation for North Carolina: $3,601,780,364
ARP ESSER funding released to North Carolina on March 24, 2021: $2,399,461,137
ARP ESSER funding released to North Carolina on September 13, 2021: $1,202,319,227
2020-2021 Preliminary Statewide Enrollment: 1,513,677
https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/09/North-Carolina-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan-Highlights-v2-091021.pdf
North Carolina State ESSER Plan signed 31 Aug 2021 by LaTricia Townsend.
https://oese.ed.gov/files/2021/09/North-Carolina-ARP-ESSER-State-Plan-Final_Redacted.pdf
Read this 47 page document CAREFULLY.
Look for CDC requirements, social emotional learning (SEL) requirements.
Page 14. last para and numbered list. There is a doc called Lighting Our Way Forward. Click the footnoted link for how the state agreed to comply with these covid-related requirements.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z5Mp2XzOOPkBYN4YvROz4YOyNIF2UoWq9EZfrjvN4x8/edit#heading=h.e4zxnmabnlya
