Northern Lehigh School District should soon receive funds aimed to address the impact that the coronavirus has had on educational agencies.

Assistant Superintendent Dr. Tania Stoker discussed the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief fund grant for the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund with the school board on Monday.

Stoker said the district will receive $329,372. Of that, she said $4,796 will go to the nonpublic schools which are encompassed in the district.

“We are currently as an administrative team looking at how we want to spend those moneys, and especially in light of the requirements that the Pennsylvania Department of Education has put out and safety measures for coming back to school and how we can best spend those moneys,” Stoker said.

Stoker added that once they have decided what their course of action will be, they will submit the grant, for which she said there’s a fairly quick turnaround period.

“So, we should be receiving those moneys pretty soon after we receive that grant,” she said.

Under the ESSER Fund, established as part of the Education Stabilization Fund in the CARES Act, 1, state educational agencies award subgrants to local educational agencies to address the impact that COVID-19 has had, and continues to have, on elementary and secondary schools across the nation.