This Executive Summary includes the activity of the Targeted Extended School Year Payments grant program for fiscal year 2023. 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 FY2023 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 2023 Appropriation Act Item 136M, the VDOE awarded start-up grants totaling $7,763,362.00 to four school divisions—Hampton City, Newport News City, Salem City, and Roanoke City. Two of the four school divisions were prior year planning grant recipients implemented programs during fiscal year 2023.

Only Waynesboro City applied for and received a total of $50,000 in planning grant funds.