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The clock is ticking for schools to spend one-time federal COVID relief funds. The grant is called the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief fund, or ESSER for short. Throughout the pandemic, the federal government gave out three waves of it, and the third is about to expire. “Arizona schools were allocated $2.3 billion dollars. That's a huge number,” said Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne.The money is meant to help kids catch up from COVID learning loss.
The state’s dashboard showed quite a few districts that have at least 25% or more of their funds unspent and it ranged from small to large school districts like Deer Valley, which showed it had about $10.5 million left. ABC15 reached out to several of these districts about the remaining funds, and of those that responded, they said they had already made commitments to spend that money.
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