Find your district: How 30 Dayton-area school districts spent their COVID-19 relief funds

The federal government provided three rounds of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds to school districts across the nation. The first round, ESSER I, has to be spent by Sept. 30, 2022. The deadline for ESSER II is Sept. 30, 2023. The third round, and by far the largest, has to be spent by Sept. 30, 2024.

Some districts also received money for specific things like homeless students or broadband, but the ESSER money accounts for the largest share of pandemic-related federal aid to schools.