Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools
A federal pandemic grant that bought services for chartered nonpublic schools through public agencies from FY2022 to FY2025: $285.4 million over four years, about a third of what Category 3 paid in the same years. It is federal money beside Category 3 and is never part of it.
program/emergency-assistance-to-nonpublic-schools · 3 nodes point here
Fund 3HQ0, ALI 200651. The redbook names its source as FAL 84.425C, “Education Stabilization Fund - Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund”, and its legal basis as Section 287.10 of H.B. 45 of the 134th General Assembly and Sections 265.460, 265.465, 265.550 and 505.80 of H.B. 33 of the 135th, “originally established by H.B. 170 of the 134th G.A.” verified LSC Redbook — Ohio Department of Education and Workforce
Congress funded it twice, on different terms. The Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021, created the program in section 312(d) of division M. It reserved $2,750,000,000 of the Governor’s fund, allotted each state’s share by “the number of children aged 5 through 17 at or below 185 percent of poverty who are enrolled in non-public schools in the State”, and had the Governor “designate the State educational agency to administer the program”. It required that “the control of funds for the services or assistance provided to a non-public school … shall be in a public agency”, and it permitted some reimbursement of expenses a school had already incurred. The American Rescue Plan Act’s section 2002 appropriated a second $2,750,000,000 for “services or assistance to non-public schools that enroll a significant percentage of low-income students and are most impacted by the qualifying emergency”. It also provided that those funds “shall not be used to provide reimbursements to any non-public school”. verified United States public laws — the enrolled federal acts
In Ohio a school applied, and an educational service center delivered. Nonpublic schools “were required to apply to receive services or assistance”, schools enrolling many low-income students received priority, and the department “contracted with ESCs to administer these funds on its behalf”. It sized each school’s amount by “a weighted per-pupil approach based on enrollment, low-income data, and information collected on the application”. verified LSC Redbook — Ohio Department of Education and Workforce
That is why this is a node beside auxiliary services and not a fourth Category 3 line. Both buy secular services for the same schools through public agencies. The money here came from a federal grant on a federal formula, under a federal rule that a public agency keep title to whatever it bought. Adding it to Category 3 would describe a state appropriation that the General Assembly never made.
What this repository computed Contents
Not what Ohio publishes. Figures derived here from committed fixtures, each one citing the test that reproduces it.
What it spent Contents
The 2025 catalog edition records $55,331,436 in FY2022, $95,051,480 in FY2023,
$86,446,473 in FY2024 and $48,578,449 in FY2025: $285,407,838 over the four years,
and nothing before or after. verified crates/project
It was never enacted Contents
Every catalog edition records the line’s enacted appropriation as $0. The money arrived as a
federal grant, and the line was raised mid-biennium. So the only appropriation figures are
adjusted ones, and the catalog states two of them: $254,755,326 for FY2023 in the 2022
edition, and $64,585,482 for FY2025 in the 2024 edition. No held edition states one for
FY2022 or FY2024, and none is filled in here. verified crates/project
The unspent part did not lapse. In May 2023 “the Controlling Board approved the reallocation of
$52.4 million in unused EANS funds for other purposes in accordance with federal law”, half to “a
program similar to EANS” and half to tutoring for public and nonpublic pupils. verified LSC Redbook — Ohio Department of Education and Workforce H.B. 33 then earmarked $1 million of the
line’s FY2024 balance for a Montgomery County pupil transportation pilot, from “reallocated
federal Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools (EANS) funds that went unused for their
original purpose”. verified lsc-education-greenbooks.txt
So the later actuals are not all services to nonpublic schools: some of the FY2024 and FY2025
spending is reallocated money, and the catalog does not separate it. inference
Beside Category 3, not inside it Contents
Year by year EANS came to between a fifth and two fifths of what Category 3 paid: 24.3% in
FY2022, 41.3% in FY2023, 36.5% in FY2024 and 20.0% in FY2025. Over the four years together it
was 30.5% of Category 3, and its four-year total is more than Category 3 paid in FY2025,
$242,688,919. verified crates/project
These are comparisons of size and nothing more. A per-pupil figure that added the two would divide federal services by a state membership. It would also show an FY2023 jump that no Category 3 line made and an FY2026 fall that was the grant ending, not a state cut.
The line number has been three programs Contents
ALI 200651 was Child Nutrition Services in fund 5B1, then Title IID Technology in fund 3DM0
under the 2009 stimulus, and only then EANS in fund 3HQ0. Read by ALI alone, the catalog shows
spending in FY2002-FY2004 and FY2010-FY2012 as well as FY2022-FY2025, and only the last four
years are this program. The series here is read by fund and line together, and a fourth use of
the number would fail the test that pins the three. verified crates/project
Properties Contents
| Name | Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools |
|---|---|
| Mechanism | direct-appropriation |
| Why this mechanism | The nearest of the six mechanisms, and not an exact fit. The state passed a federal grant through an appropriation line to services that public agencies bought for each applying school. Nothing is deducted, nobody competed for it and no funding unit is paid, so direct-appropriation is the closest. Unlike auxiliary services, the school never received money under the American Rescue Plan round: section 2002 bars reimbursements to any non-public school. verified The first round permitted some reimbursement, and how much of Ohio's spending took that form is not held. open |
| Eligibility | Nonpublic schools that applied, with priority to those enrolling a significant percentage of low-income students and most affected by the pandemic. verified The federal act sets the state's allotment by the count of low-income nonpublic pupils aged 5 through 17, but Ohio's allocation to schools used a weighted per-pupil approach. The weights are not published in any source held here. open |
| Amount | A weighted per-pupil amount for each applying school, delivered as services or assistance rather than cash. Statewide it spent $285.4 million over FY2022-FY2025. verified What any one school received is not held. open |
| Appropriation line | Fund 3HQ0, ALI 200651, read from crates/project/fixtures/catalog-line-items.csv by fund and line together through project::ledger::nonpublic_federal. verified |
Where this appears on the site Contents
The pages outside the corpus that link here, and the section of each the link sits in.
Links Contents
| Instance of | Funding Program |
|---|---|
| Parallels | Auxiliary Services |
| Parallels | Nonpublic Administrative Cost Reimbursement |
| Enacted beside | ESSER — Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief |
| Sourced from | United States public laws — the enrolled federal acts |
| Sourced from | Catalog of Budget Line Items — what each appropriation line was given |
| Sourced from | LSC Redbook — Ohio Department of Education and Workforce |
Pointed at by
| Auxiliary Services | Parallels |
|---|---|
| IDEA Part B | Parallels |
| Title I, Part A | Parallels |
What this node does not hold Contents
Ohio's federal award under each round — The two acts set the national totals and the allotment formula. Ohio's allotment in each round is in the U.S. Department of Education's award notices, which no source here retrieves, so the share of the award Ohio spent cannot be computed.
what each nonpublic school received — The department's allocations to schools and the ESCs' contracts are the only record of who was served. No source here publishes them, so this node cannot say which schools the money reached or whether it followed the low-income priority.