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With federal grants expiring, Bloomfield Hills School district weighs tuition for summer programs
Summary
District staff told trustees that ESSER and related pandemic-era funds that subsidized summer school and tutoring are expiring; the board discussed a tuition model (example: five weeks/15 sessions at $700) for K–8 programming, distinctions with ESY (special-education extended-year services), and follow-up requests for enrollment and utilization data.
Trustees at the March 25 meeting were told that federal pandemic-era funds (ESSER and related "23 gs" funds) that previously subsidized summer-school and tutoring programming have largely expired. District staff presented a tuition-based option for K–8 summer offerings (example in committee materials: 5 weeks/15 sessions at $700) and said tutoring supports funded by grants may or may not be replaced by new state grants.
Why it matters: The expiration of one-time federal grants forces the district to choose between…
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