'It's a huge experiment—what happens if you give money and there are very few strings attached?'
While 'follow the money' has long been the simple one-sentence slogan for keeping an eye on political and other high stakes maneuvers, 'follow the ESSER funds' has now become the catchphrase of those trying to track the largest influx of school funding since the financial crisis of 2008. Also puzzling to those educational advocates and financial experts looking into the spending of ESSER III money is why so little of it has yet to be used at all.
And according to Roza, the ESSER funds were more than many districts could spend on COVID-related needs. While initially the Biden administration emphasized getting students back into the classroom, after schools had re-opened for in-person learning last fall districts were left with over $120 billion of ESSER funding without a focused mission to guide its spending. Most districts had submitted their plans as to how they were going to spend the money earlier in the pandemic.
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