ESSER funds will support our ability to address both the academic impact of lost instructional time as well as respond appropriately to our students' social, emotional and mental health needs. We are basically 100% racial ethnic minority, many students at risk for homelessness, in poverty, and language learners. We needed a comprehensive system that would be able to tackle some of our challenges, and so we relied on stakeholder feedback and on a report from the National Center on Intensive Intervention to better understand how to structure our student interventions.
