Grant Details

Through the COVID Relief Act of 2021, $81.88 billion was allocated to the US Department of Education (USED) for the Education Stabilization fund. After a small set aside of this total, 5% of the remaining funds were to be used to make supplemental Governor's Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Funds grants. Further, from the total GEER funding available, the ED Secretary has reserved funds to also provide Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools (EANS) grants.

A non-public school receiving services or assistance under this subsection shall use such services or assistance to address educational disruptions resulting from the qualifying emergency for—

1. supplies to sanitize, disinfect, and clean school facilities;
2. personal protective equipment;
3. improving ventilation systems, including windows or portable air purification systems to ensure healthy air in the non-public school;
4. training and professional development for staff on sanitation, the use of personal protective equipment, and minimizing the spread of infectious diseases;
5. physical barriers to facilitate social distancing;
6. other materials, supplies, or equipment to implement public health protocols, including guidelines and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the reopening and operation of school facilities to effectively maintain the health and safety of students, educators, and other staff during the qualifying emergency;
7. expanding capacity to administer coronavirus testing to effectively monitor and suppress coronavirus, to conduct surveillance and contact tracing activities, and to support other activities related to coronavirus testing for students, teachers, and staff at the non-public school;
8. educational technology (including hardware, software, connectivity, assistive technology, and adaptive equipment) to assist students, educators, and other staff with remote or hybrid learning;
9. redeveloping instructional plans, including curriculum development, for remote learning, hybrid learning, or to address learning loss;
10. leasing of sites or spaces to ensure safe social distancing to implement public health protocols, including guidelines and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
11. reasonable transportation costs
12. initiating and maintaining education and support services or assistance for remote learning, hybrid learning, or to address learning loss; or
13. reimbursement for the expenses of any services or assistance described in this list [except for items 3 (except that portable air purification systems shall be an allowable reimbursable expense), 4, 9, and 12] that the non-public school incurred on or after the date of the qualifying emergency, except that any non-public school that has received a loan guaranteed under paragraph 36 of section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)) as of the day prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall not be eligible for reimbursements described in this paragraph for any expenses reimbursed through such loan.

Further, GEER funds shall not be used—

• to provide direct or indirect financial assistance to scholarship-granting organizations or related entities for elementary or secondary education; or
• to provide or support vouchers, tuition tax credit programs, education savings accounts, scholarships, scholarship programs, or tuition-assistance programs for elementary or secondary education.

The control of funds for the services or assistance provided to a non-public school under GEER, and title to materials, equipment, and property purchased GEER funds, shall be in a public agency, and a public agency shall administer such funds, services, assistance, materials, equipment, and property. Further, all services or assistance provided under GEER, including providing equipment, materials, and any other items, shall be secular, neutral, and non-ideological.