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RELIEF FUNDING TO ACCELERATE LEARNING  \nAUGUST 2024  \nUnfinished learning during the pandemic led to historic declines in reading and math nationwide, yet states’investments focused on students have already contributed to improved academic outcomes. Using federal relief funding designated for K-12 education through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, states have been committed to accelerating learning to address the impacts of the pandemic.  \nStates’ academic recovery initiatives include high-dollar investments in instructional materials and professional development, summer and after-school learning and high-impact tutoring. These investments are paying off, contributing to nationwide improvement in student academic outcomes.  \n45 STATES dedicated nearly $1.9 BILLION in ESSER state set-aside funds to support instructional materials and professional development.* That includes 32 STATES collectively investing more than $639 MILLION toward literacy initiatives that center on the science of reading, a long-standing and broad body of research on how young children learn to read.  \nInstructional Materials and Professional Development  \n$1.9B → 45  \nStates  \n*Analysis does not include investments in high-impact tutoring, out-of-school time learning, remote learning, career readiness and nonacademic content areas.  \nNC  \nNorth Carolina trained more than 44,000 educators on the science of reading, reaching more than 748,000 prekindergarten through fifth grade students. In the 2022–23 school year, North Carolina students outpaced national growth in reading based on the DIBELS 8 assessment.  \nLouisiana used ESSER to expand access to Zearn, a digital tool to help students catch up to grade-level content in math. Among frequent users in Louisiana, 70% of students at the lowest level of achievement improved on the 2022 state math assessment compared with 45% who did not use the platform.  \nLA  \nStates dedicated more than $3.27 BILLION in ESSER state set-aside funds toward summer and after-school activities. This ESSER investment was approximately $800 MILLION more than the $2.4 billion required to be set aside under the last of the three ESSER funds.  \n\n| Summer and After-School Learning |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| MOON-OVER-SUN | | $3.27B\u003Cbr>Across All States |\n\nIn 2023, the Hawaiʻi Department of Education's summer learning programs successfully enrolled 27,188 students at 216 schools. The most popular program, the Learning Hub, served three-quarters of those students. That program boasted an 87% attendance rate, and 94% of students received passing grades.  \nHI  \nAL  \nAlabama provided state ESSER set-aside funds to school districts to support summer reading camps in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Participating students received at least 60 hours of scientifically based reading instruction and intervention supervised by highly qualified teachers. Students who attended camps after kindergarten saw an average growth of 6.4% in reading. Asa result of this success, the legislature will continue providing support for Summer Reading Camp and before-and after-school tutoring for the 2024–2025 school year.  \n32 STATES dedicated more than $840 MILLION in ESSER state set-aside funds to expand access to tutoring services. Many of these programs are aligned to the latest research  on high-impact tutoring, which consists of three or more tutoring sessions per week, targeted relationship building between the tutor and the student by keeping the tutoring groups smaller than four students, progress monitoring with formative assessments, alignment to the school curriculum and formal support and training for the tutors.  \n\n| Tutoring\u003Cbr>$840M |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 32 | States |\n\nIL  \nThe Illinois State Board of Education invested $28 million in the Illinois Tutoring Initiative. Tutored students had more consistent reading and math growth t","cbCaikLtsKaFj4zY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikLtsKaFj4zY","pdf",809631,"English","# ESSER Investment to Impact\n## Instructional Materials and Professional Development\n## Summer and After-School Learning\n## Tutoring Services and High-Impact Tutoring\n## ESSER Overview and Fund Distribution","[{\"question\":\"What is the ESSER Fund and how did states use it?\",\"answer\":\"States used federal ESSER relief funding designated for K-12 education to accelerate learning and address pandemic impacts, including investing in instructional materials, professional development, summer and after-school programs, and high-impact tutoring.\"},{\"question\":\"Which instructional and literacy initiatives are emphasized in the report?\",\"answer\":\"The report highlights investments in instructional materials and professional development, including literacy initiatives centered on the science of reading, as well as expanded access to tools and programs to help students catch up in key subjects like reading and math.\"},{\"question\":\"What tutoring model does the report describe as “high-impact tutoring”?\",\"answer\":\"High-impact tutoring is described as consisting of three or more tutoring sessions per week, small tutoring groups (smaller than four students), progress monitoring with formative assessments, alignment to the school curriculum, and training and formal support for tutors.\"}]","ESSER Investment to Impact - How States Used Federal Education Relief Funding to Accelerate Learning | PDF",1792050268]