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Lewiston schools outline plans to use federal ESEA carryover as some titles face delay
Summary
District federal programs coordinator Jenny Darigan told the Lewiston School Committee that the district will use ESEA carryover funds to bridge a short-term federal funding delay and presented priorities tied to the consolidated Title I–IV application.
Jenny Darigan, Lewiston Public Schools’ district federal programs coordinator, briefed the Lewiston School Committee on the district’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) funding status and proposed uses of carryover funds for the 2025–26 school year.
Darigan said Title I funding was not part of a recent federal delay and that Lewiston will receive Title I funds as planned, but the district has experienced a net decrease in Title I of $177,000 compared with last year. She described a separate delay for other ESEA titles that the district had been tracking and said those funds were released by the U.S. Department of Education the previous Friday and are now “pending” state allocation and application windows.
Darigan explained the district is preparing a consolidated application that bundles Titles I, II,…
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