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The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) provides billions of dollars to local governments through Fiscal Recovery Funds (FRF), competitive grants and other provisions to help meet community housing needs. In this podcast, Baker Tilly’s public sector housing leaders share insights on the financial opportunities municipalities have to support housing.

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St. Louis County, Minnesota joins CommuniTIES to share its successful grant administration strategy that supported small businesses, schools, not-for-profits and individuals in the community with CARES Act funding, and how the County plans to leverage American Rescue Plan dollars

Featured Education Matters guest: 

• Stephen Dyer, Director of Government Relations, Communications & Marketing, Ohio Education Association
  • Prior to joining OEA, Stephen Dyer was the Education Policy Fellow at Innovation Ohio, a Columbus-based Progressive think tank, where he fights for the right of all Ohio’s children to receive a world-class education, regardless of where they live. He has authored several reports for IO that have sought to ensure the fundamental right of every Ohio child to a world-class education. He is widely considered one of the state’s top education policy experts, and one of the few people in the country with the experience of actually implementing and leading the debate on every major aspect of education reform from teacher quality to student achievement to school choice to equitable financing. He has been published in Education Week – the nation’s education policy newspaper of record, as well as The 74 and Real Clear Education. He has been quoted extensively in the New York Times, Washington Post and Rolling Stone, among other publications. Dyer has headlined conferences and town halls throughout the state, and is one of the state’s most sought-after education policy panelists. He was the keynote speaker on Ohio’s charter school experience at the Cleveland Press Club.
  • His 2011 report for Innovation Ohio, which called into question ECOT’s money-making practices, many have seen as the impetus for the eventual implosion of the school that has been revealed to be the state’s all-time, largest taxpayer ripoff and scandal. He has written extensive, groundbreaking reports for Innovation Ohio on school funding, charter schools, teacher evaluation, accountability and the Cleveland Transformation Plan. He spent a year as a fellow with the Education Policy Fellowship Program through the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, D.C. and served as part of an American delegation to observe the Chinese education system in Shanghai and Beijing. He recently served on a panel before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, informing the commission about how school funding systems can affect academics.
  • Dyer also is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Akron, where he has received accolades for his classroom teaching.
  • Dyer has spent his career serving his community, first as an award-winning journalist with the Akron Beacon Journal, then as an award-winning State Representative representing Ohio’s Summit and Portage counties. 
  • As a reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal for about a decade, Dyer won awards and recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press and the Cleveland Press Club. He collaborated on an innovative project called “Ohio: Look at the State We’re In” that analyzed where Ohio ranked on various quality of life issues. That collaboration earned Dyer and two other reporters nominations for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize.
  • After winning his seat in 2006 to represent the 43rd House District, Dyer fought tirelessly to once and for all fix our state’s school funding system. He spent two years developing his own system, then when Gov. Ted Strickland introduced the Ohio Evidence Based Model in 2009, Dyer was the chairman of the subcommittee that transformed the new system into one that earned the Frank Newman Award from the Education Commission of the States – recognizing the country’s most “bold, innovative, non-partisan” education reform of 2009. It remains the only school funding plan produced since the 1930s that promised to lower Ohio’s property taxes to pay for schools.
  • Dyer received the Leadership in Education Policy Award from the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding, which was the group that sued the state over its old, unconstitutionally funded system. He is the only Ohio legislator ever given an award from the group. He received the 2010 Friend of Public Education Award from the Ohio Federation of Teachers, the 2010 Public Service Award from the Ohio Association of Career and Technical Education, the 2009 Homer F. Mincy Award from the Alliance for Adequate School Funding (a group representing the state’s suburban districts), and the 2009 Civic Leadership Award from the Ohio Association for Gifted Children.
  • Dyer grew up in Hudson, Ohio, and attended Western Reserve Academy, where his parents taught. He graduated from Tufts University in Massachusetts with a Bachelor’s Degree in English, earned a Master’s Degree in journalism from Kent State University and a law degree from the University of Akron. He lives in Green with his wife of 19 years, Melissa, and his two sons, Logan, 13, and Carson, 9, both of whom attend Green Local Schools. 

In this episode:

• 1:35 - $4.5 billion in ARP money for Ohio's schools: A lot of money and a lot of opportunity for our kids
• 2:30 - The ARP regulations require that educators and their unions be given the opportunity to provide input on how the money is spent. Read the full language here. 
• 3:50 - The 16 ways the ARP money can be used, including investing in personnel, communities, buildings, and technology
• 5:00 - Different needs in different districts
• 5:30 - Maintaining and growing the ARP investments through the Fair School Funding Plan
• 8:45 - The Fair School Funding Plan in the hands of the state Senate and the fate of the last one-time federal education funding package in Ohio
• 11:40 - Call to action for Ohio's educators and community members to contact their state Senator to support the Fair School Funding Plan
• 12:45 - Advice for how to advocate for students' needs in local decisions about how ARP and FSFP money is spent
• 13:45 - "If they're getting away with it, it's your fault."
• 15:00 - The opportunity to use ARP money to implement the FSFP faster
• 16:46 - A former state legislator's perspective on whether the state would ever be at this point: "If you had told me ten years ago that we'd go from the state defunding education by 1.8 billion to the state investing in education by 1.8 billion, and the state going from no school funding formula to a rational one that actually calculates costs and needs of students, I would have told you we must have legalized pot because you're high"
• 17:55 - "We are on the precipice of doing something great for our kids, and not just now but into the future."

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Ken and Carla explore the relief plan just signed by President Biden this week - The American Rescue Plan. The stock market hits record highs. Jemar Tisby and Beth Moore announce their departure from the church they love. They remember the legacies of Howard Hendricks and Tom Skinner. The now former royals, Harry and Meghan, tell all to Oprah and Ken reminisces about his visit to London the week Diana, Harry's mother (The Queen of Hearts) died. Carla brings us into the new season - the first robin has appeared, singing the song of Spring. Links: Jemar Tisby tells his story.

The American Rescue Plan was signed into law by President Joe Biden on Thursday March 11, 2021.

A lot of news has covered the inclusion of the $1,400 stimulus check, but there is a lot in the bill concerning health and health care policy. For example, the American Rescue Plan offers financial incentives to states that have yet to expand Medicaid. In addition, the bill expands the eligibility for health insurance subsidies and temporarily relieves premium tax credit claw backs for 2020. These changes are expected to extend coverage to about 2.5 million uninsured consumers from 2021 through 2023.

On today's episode of Health Affairs This Week, Georgetown University faculty member and Health Affairs Contributing Editor Katie Keith joins Health Affairs Blog Editor Chris Fleming to discuss what's in the American Rescue Plan for health care.

Related Links:

• Biden's $1.9 Trillion Rescue Plan Set To Turbocharge U.S. Economy (NPR)
• Final Coverage Provisions In The American Rescue Plan And What Comes Next (Health Affairs Blog)
• The Affordable Care Act's Insurance Marketplace Subsidies Were Associated With Reduced Financial Burden For US Adults (Health Affairs)
• Biden And New Congress Tackle COVID-19, ACA (Health Affairs)
• CBO Analyzes American Rescue Plan Coverage Expansions (Health Affairs Blog)
• New Incentive For States To Adopt The ACA Medicaid Expansion: Implications For State Spending (Kaiser Family Foundation)

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We are one year into the coronavirus pandemic, what is the outlook for America? Moderator Margaret Brennan talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci and former FDA Commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb. We also hear from New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy, who explains why his state has been so hard hit over the past year, and the new COVID variant hitting New York. On Saturday, the Senate voted to pass the coronavirus relief bill. Republican West Virginia Governor talks about supporting the American Rescue Plan, and providing relief to hurting Americans. We brought together five people from across the country to talk a year of COVID-19, vaccines, local response, and more. Plus, On the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, and the week of the Derek Chauvin's trial jury selection, we hear from civil rights attorney, Ben Crump. All that and more on this week's "Face the Nation."

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