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Bloomfield Hills discusses tuition model as summer-school pandemic funds expire; ESY remains general‑fund cost
Summary
District staff told trustees that summer-school and tutoring programs funded over the pandemic by ESSER and other grants are ending, prompting proposals for tuition-based summer programs for K–8 and questions about supports for families and special-education Extended School Year (ESY) services.
Trustees at the March 17 study session heard that federal pandemic relief and other temporary grants that previously subsidized summer school and tutoring in Bloomfield Hills Schools have largely expired, prompting administrators to consider tuition-based models for K–8 summer offerings while maintaining ESY (Extended School Year) services for students with IEPs as a general‑fund obligation.
Why it matters: The district has provided summer learning and tutoring to address learning loss and targeted interventions. As pandemic-era funds such as ESSER taper, administrators warned that the district must decide whether to charge families for summer academic programming or scale back offerings.
Administrators said multiple funding streams supported summer programming in recent years. "We first had ESSER funds and 11T…
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