WESTFIELD — Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski and Business Administrator Shannon Barry presented an accounting to the School Committee on Dec. 4 of what grants are currently funding which programs, and the areas of concern are with the ending of federal ESSER funds in September 2024.
“We tried to limit staff on the grant, but at some point we had to meet the needs of the kids. I think we had a nice mix,” Czaporowski said during the meeting, pointing to some of the long-standing capital improvement needs that had been addressed in the schools with Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, a series of pandemic-era spending programs passed by Congress in 2020 and 2021.
Christine Shea, director of assessment and accountability, and Susan Dargie, director of curriculum, said on Tuesday that the purpose of the presentation was two-fold, to talk about everything the district has accomplished with the ESSER funds, and what areas will be vulnerable to cuts when the funding ends.
