What lower than expected Enrollment Stabilization Grant funding means for schools
Enrollment Stabilization Grants that they learned about in letters they received just last week.
In June 2020, Gov. Doug Ducey set aside $370 million in federal
CARES Act funds for
Enrollment Stabilization Grants to help protect schools’ budgets against an anticipated decline in enrollment due to the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring that schools received at least 98 percent of their previous year’s state funding.
But requests for the funding were more than the money allocated for it, so reductions were made in the amounts that schools received.
“The estimator tool indicated that we would receive $6.5 million; however, the proportional deduction statewide reduced our allocation down to about $5.2 million,” said Renée Ryon, director of communications & public relations for