The Department of Education American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds are available to educational institutions in all 50 states to help schools reopen. There are funds specified for both K-12 schools and institutions of higher education in this plan.
Avigilon, a Motorola Solutions company, offers a variety of solutions that can be deployed to help education agencies in their coronavirus response, prevention, and mitigation efforts - technologies and systems to assist in safely reopening schools. You may be able to use your Education Stabilization Fund grant on these solutions, but you should consult your State Educational Agencies (SEA) and/or legal department if you have questions.
Avigilon Control Center (ACC, video solution) and Avigilon Access Control Manager (ACM, access control solution) have embedded capabilities that assist with your efforts of reopening safely. Avigilon Cloud Services (ACS) is the platform that presents some of the information in a dashboard format with reports for compliance trend analysis. Below are a few of the allowable uses for funds and corresponding Motorola Solutions technologies that apply. (Please see additional detail in the linked documentation above for more specific information on some of the referenced items.)
K-12 Education (ESSER funds) allowable uses:
Coordination of preparedness and response efforts of local educational agencies with state, local, tribal, and territorial public health departments, and other relevant agencies, to improve coordinated responses among such entities to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
School facility repairs and improvements to enable operation of schools to reduce risk of virus transmission and exposure to environmental health hazards, and to support student health needs.
Providing principals and other school leaders with the resources necessary to address the needs of their individual schools.
Developing and implementing procedures and systems to improve the preparedness and response efforts of local educational agencies.
Higher-Education (HEER funds) allowable uses:
Implementing evidence-based practices to monitor and suppress coronavirus in accordance with public health guidelines
For more information about Avigilon solutions that may work for your organization, please contact your Absco Solutions account executive or our sales support team at salessupport@abscosolutions.com.