This Executive Summary includes the activity of the Targeted Extended School Year Payments grant program for fiscal year 2022. Since the General Assembly began appropriating and authorizing grants to extend the school year in FY2014, the Virginia Department of Education has administered the voluntary grant application and award process. In the nine years of dedicated appropriations for this grant, 34 different school divisions have received awards to conduct planning and/or start-up activities.

To encourage applications for the FY2022 grant program, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) promoted the availability of $7,150,000 in start-up funds and $613,312 in planning funds included in the FY2022 Appropriation Act for a total of $7,763,312 in available funds.

Using the guidelines established by the 2021 Appropriation Act Item 144 M (Appendix A), the VDOE awarded start-up grants totaling $1,457,525 to 53 schools in five school divisions—Carroll County, Colonial Beach, Salem, Waynesboro, and Winchester. Four of the five school divisions and three prior year grant recipients implemented programs which served 13,347 students in some capacity during fiscal year 2022. Six school divisions applied for and received a total of $300,000 in planning grant funds—Gloucester, Hampton, New Kent County, Newport News, Prince George County, and Waynesboro.