A Special Meeting of the Board of Education will be held on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, at 6 p.m. for Open Session. There will be no closed session. The meeting will be conducted in-person in the Lincoln Center Board Room, 1201 N. Sheridan Road. The regularly-scheduled Budget Workshop will follow the meeting.

On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plans (ARP) was signed into law. In it, the U.S. Department of Education is providing an additional $121.9 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER III Fund). Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 (WPS60) is allotted a total of $50,586,354 in ESSER III (ARP). A total of $43,375,340 was made available directly to the District with a requirement that 20% of that amount must be spent to address learning loss. The remaining allocation is considered state level reservations for learning loss, summer enrichment and after school activities in amounts of $5,150,724, $1,030,145 and $1,030,145, respectively.