The American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief III (ESSER III-ARP) grant includes a Maintenance of Equity (MOEquity) provision that local education agencies (LEAs) must report on for fiscal years 2022 (FY22) and FY23. The intent and purpose of the provision is to ensure that LEAs, schools, and students that already experience opportunity gaps are not disproportionately impacted by any funding reductions that might result from the COVID-19 pandemic.
LEAs are exempt if they meet one or more of the following criteria:
- have a total enrollment of less than 1,000 students,
- operate a single school,
- serve all students within each grade span with a single school and/or
- have notified the OSSE that they have not implemented an aggregate reduction in combined State and local per-pupil funding.
In the District of Columbia, all LEAs meet at least one of the four criteria listed above for FY23. Below is a list of all LEAs which received ESSER III-ARP funding and were operating in FY23.