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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 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 Tutoring Grant to help... 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.

CoLabs are one-day... Read More

Tags: Allocations, Local Priorities, Use of Funds

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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.


Posted 03/01/2023 - 9:05am

Students in the East Grand and West Grand school districts have a safe environment to continue learning outside of their regular four-day school week thanks to funding from Colorado’s... Read More

Tags: ESSER Expanded Learning Opportunities, ESSER III, High-Quality Instructional Programming, Local Priorities

West Grand Middle School students participate in a Fifth Day Activity at the AeroLab program in Grand County.


Posted 02/14/2023 - 5:58pm

Boulder Valley School District, one of the grantees that received ESSER funding to help create an effective teacher mentor program, will have a two-day summer institute for beginning teachers and plans to put teacher mentors in every... Read More

Tags: American Rescue Plan (ARP), ESSER III, Local Priorities, Mentor Grant Program, Use of Funds

Boulder Valley School District story on teacher mentor program


Posted 01/26/2023 - 11:14am

Welcome to the Colorado Department of Education’s blog about the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, where we will bring you stories about the funding created to address the immediate health and operational challenges of... Read More

Tags: ESSER I, Use of Funds

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