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ForestParkReview.com Vol. 105, No. 33
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REVIEW AUGUST 17, 2022
District 91 to spend stimulus funds on student services Summer school, learning coaches also covered in $2.2M plan
Exercise group builds friendship, community service PAGE 12
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A Heroine’s Journey Forest Park Theatre adapts Shakespeare’s ‘Cymbeline’ page 8-9
By IGOR STUDENKOV Staff Reporter
The school board at the Forest Park elementary schools reviewed a plan for spending remaining federal stimulus funds during its Aug. 11 meeting. All three COVID-19 federal stimulus funding packages included money for schools that were distributed through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund. District 91 already spent its ESSER 1 funds – the money that came from Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the first stimulus package. In order to spend the funding from the remaining two stimulus packages, it is required to release the plans in a public meeting and give residents the opportunity to comment. The Illinois State Board of Education then either approves or denies the plan. ESSER II funds must by committed by September 2023 and ESSER III funds must be committed by September 2024. District 91 proposes spending the money to help pay for summer school, student tutoring and other support services. The money would also go toward improving SHANEL ROMAIN/Staff Photographer
See D91 SPENDING on page 10
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