THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2021 Page 13 SCHOOL | FROM Page 1 (ESSER) II and III grants as a result of the Covid recovery acts as well as the increased funding the city will be receiving over the next seven years as a result of the Student Opportunity Act. The act, which was signed into law last November, provides an infusion of funding to mainly urban districts that have been underfunded in the past. “The money that has come in has been very useful, and we will never see anything like this again,” said School Committee Member Stacey Rizzo. The offi cial public hearing on the school budget took place during Tuesday’s School Committee meeting but was over quickly as no one from the public spoke for or against the budget. Last Friday’s Ways and Means Subcommittee meeting went into greater detail about how the district will be using about $26 million in the ESSER II and III grants over the next several years. The windfall resulted in the creation of a number of new positions across the district that Superintendent of Schools Dr. Dianne Kelly said the district will be able to continue to fund over the coming seven years. The ESSER II grant totals about $6.5 million and has to be spent by the end of FY22, Kelly said. “We have mapped out a budget process that spends almost all of that grant,” she said. Kelly said the district received GUEST | FROM Page 10 to it during too many rotations around and around until you threw up your lunch? My parents had their spot down at the end of the beach headed in the direction of Revere and beyond to Winthrop. They liked to tan on the grass not sand. It was also in close walking distance to the MDC public restrooms where all those Jewish ladies who grew up in the North End would sit. My dad and they would talk back and forth in Italian. Then, he told me they all lived over by Salem Street in the North End. As opposed to the old Italian ladies, these gals turned into lobster red in the summer sun. Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, Revere Beach was our Disneyland. Take what is now the Orange Line to the Blue Line, get off at either Revere Beach or Wonderland Stations and let the fun begin. Sadly, my old Revere Beach with all those amusement rides lining the boulevard has vanished into history. However, if I close my eyes I can see it all again. Thank God I was a baby boomer because I was born just in time for these great old memories of mine. new guidance from the state that the ESSER II grant should be spent down before the district dips into the ESSER III grant, which can be used by the end of FY24. Most of the money from that $19 million-plus grant will be carried over to future years. About $6.5 million is earmarked for FY22, with $6 million of the total going toward renovations at the McKinley School. Some of the staffing highlights from the ESSER II grant are a communications coordinator and an HR offi cer at the district level, 30 new paraprofessionals, increasing 11 parttime parent liaison positions to full-time, two tradespeople in maintenance, fi ve additional bus monitors, 14 health aides, three adaptive physical education teachers, two OT/PT speech therapists, three reading interventionists, a new nurse position, three behavioral analysts and three school psychologists. “We’re also targeting some funds to our summer program, including four nurses and seven health aides,” said Kelly. Money is also being used to set off the benefi t costs of the new positions, for HVAC and technology upgrades across the district and for new library and cafeteria furniture at the Beachmont and Garfi eld Schools. Kelly said some of the new positions may be paid for in the FY23 budget through the grant program, but that the goal is to move all the salaried positions into the regular school budget. “Ultimately, all these positions will be coming into our own budget,” said Kelly. “We do feel comfortable [that] with the estimated increase in [Student Opportunity Act funds] for the next six years that we will be able to do that.” Everett Kiwanis Club—35Th Annual Frank E. 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