Five federal programs are in place starting in July 2020 and continuing through 2024 for a total of $59 million in approved and pending support. The funding is programmed for the following priorities:

• Improved Summer School programming for three years, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24
• Increased mental health and social/emotional support for students for two years, school year 2021-22 and 2022-23.
• Academic support for underachieving students for two years, school year 2021-22 and 2022-23.
• Maintaining programs and staff to support learning opportunities for two years, school year 2021-22 and 2022-23.
• Student technology for learning in 2021-22 school year.

April 2021-September 2024
$30 million estimate, pending approval. 

• Address learning loss, preparing schools for reopening, testing, repairing and upgrading projects to improve air quality in school buildings. 
  • For the 2021-22 school year, this applies to technology replacement.
  • For the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, this applies to secondary academic intervention, Anoka-Hennepin Virtual Academy, expanded summer school, and addressing class size.
  • For the 2022-23 school year, this applies to social emotional support with the addition of social workers/counselors and staff retention.
• A minimum of 20% must be used to address learning loss.
  • For the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, this applies to elementary academic intervention focused on literacy.

April 2021 - September 2023
$13.7 million, 90% based on formula to districts

• Additional social workers and counselors for 2021-22.
• Compensatory revenue loss due to decreased free and reduced counts, while this will be used for interventions - it is only replacing existing programs that will likely not be funded next year.  
• Technology replacement related to higher reliance on technology to offset under levy to reduce tax impact.
• Staff retention to stabilize revenue as recommended by the governor.

July 2020-September 2022
$677 thousand

• Replacement of technology to support student learning.

July 2020 - September 2022
$3.3 million, 90% based on formula to districts

• $3 million for continuation of teachers and paras to support distance and hybrid learning for remainder of FY21
• $111 thousand for school age care for Tier I workers for remainder of FY21
• $108 thousand for additional personal protective equipment and supplies
• $55 thousand for additional nurse support staff for remainder of FY21
• $55 thousand Minnesota State High School League COVID-19 fee
• $19 thousand non-public schools equitable share allocation

$807 thousand, 9.5% based on state grant programs

• $100 thousand allocated to Native American summer school
• $707 thousand additional summer school supports

August 2020 - December 2020
$10.6 million, fully expended

Uses: Allowable for reasonably necessary expense that is directly related to the COVID-19 epidemic including staffing, technology, supplies and facility repairs and improvements to improve indoor air quality:

• $1.3 million school age care for tier I workers
• $2.2 million chromebooks, ipads, and other miscellaneous technology to support distance learning
• $1.6 million ionization air filtration districtwide project
• $1.3 million staffing distance and hybrid learning models
• $950 thousand custodial cleaning equipment
• $845 thousand security radios
• $1.8 million personal protective equipment
• $550 thousand google voice, google premium, GoGuardian and other misc licenses to support distance and hybrid learning models
• 22 thousand language translations for communications