Alert 03.28.20
CARES Act Includes Significant Education Provisions
Newly enacted COVID-19 legislation includes $14 billion in emergency appropriations for higher education and other relief measures.
Alert
04.10.20
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Stability Act (CARES Act) provided roughly $12.5 billion in emergency funding to be distributed to institutions of higher education (IHEs) using a formula based on student enrollment. Institutions must use at least 50 percent of these funds “to provide emergency financial aid grants to students for expenses related to the disruption of campus operations due to coronavirus (including eligible expenses under a student’s cost of attendance, such as food, housing, course materials, technology, health care, and child care) Pub. L. No. 116-136, § 18004(c).
On Thursday, April 9, 2020, the Department of Education (ED) released the formula it will use to allocate CARES Act funds to IHEs and the amount that each institution will receive. ED also announced that it was prioritizing emergency aid for students and that IHEs can draw down these funds once ED receives a signed Certificate of Funding and Agreement. (Certificates can be returned via grants.gov.)
In announcing the availability of emergency aid for students, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos provided the following guidance:
For more information, please contact Jeffrey P. Metzler, Craig J. Saperstein, Barry D. Burgdorf, Roland C. Reimers, Sarah G. Flanagan or Jacob R. Sorensen.
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