by WFIS | Jun 12, 2023 | Legislation and Policy, OSPI, Student Resources, WFIS News
Political maneuvering resulted in the legislature reverting over $6.8M private school-designated EANS I and ARP/EANS II funds by June 30, 2023. Your legislative representative may or may not know of these actions. WFIS is working with national and legal advisors to...
by WFIS | Jun 5, 2023 | Legislation and Policy, OSPI, WFIS News
OSPI allotted nineteen private schools $3.7M designated by Congress as emergency relief funds through the EANS 2 Program or ARP EANS for private schools to support low-income students most impacted by COVID. Each private school received a letter from OSPI with an...
by WFIS | Feb 21, 2023 | Covid-19, The Advocate, WFIS News
WFIS needs your advocacy support to help convince Gov. Inslee that the ARP EANS funding ($40M) should be used to support private schools, as was intended by Congress. Please send comments to Governor Inslee on how and why ARP EANS funds that are now GEER funds should...
by WFIS | Dec 15, 2022 | Education News, Legislation and Policy, Student Data, The Advocate, WFIS News
The Federal Government allocated emergency funding, known as EANS I and EANS II, or ARP-EANS, to support private school students impacted by the pandemic. For the most part, the schools that received EANS I have spent or budgeted for their entire allocation. EANS I...
by WFIS | Sep 19, 2022 | CAPE, Education News, WFIS News
Private schools had a big win this week at the US Department of Education. While attending the 2022 ONPE Private Schools Leadership Conference in Washington, DC, WFIS received the new EANS Disposition Guidance (see below) that will help schools in the future....