EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT (ESSA) FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY REPORTING
In December 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law as the successor to the
No Child Left Behind Act enacted in the early 2000s, as amended by the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act. Among a multitude of changes to the education landscape resulting from this federal
legislation was the creation of a new financial transparency reporting requirement, whereby all local
education agencies (LEAs)1 would annually provide information about:
“[t]he per-pupil expenditures of Federal,
State, and local funds, including actual
personnel expenditures and actual
nonpersonnel expenditures of Federal,
State, and local funds, disaggregated by
source of funds, for each local education
agency and each school in the State for
the preceding fiscal year.” (Public Law
114-95, 129 STAT. 1802)
Source: NYSED
The above requirement requires the district to report its funding information to NYS and the federal government. The data reported is for the latest completed fiscal year, meaning the report includes actual expenditures.
Wantagh UFSD ESSA Funding Transparency Reporting for 2021-22 Actual Expenditures (Reported November 2022)