For the first time, the Department included High-Impact Tutoring as a dedicated Competitive Preference Priority. The result: 11 funded projects center on high-impact tutoring, representing nearly $130 million across 15+ states and tribal nations.
After convening 135+ stakeholders, one thing became clear – there is significant remaining distance between a promising statute and a program that actually delivers results to students.
The Education Department ended ESSER late liquidation, months after many states had received preapproval from the Biden administration.
Acknowledging that the implementation and scaling of high-impact tutoring faces a number of barriers such as cost, the panelists discussed how philanthropy was well positioned to help overcome some of those barriers and shared a range of resources that funders and their education partners could leverage to support tutoring.
Many school districts still have a lot of money that could be spent on effective long-term interventions. States should help them build federal dollars into their budgets for years to come.
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