Please confirm shipping date for all items to ensure delivery before grant deadline. Please have Vendor include shipping dates on invoice.
On June 26, 2026, TEA received a letter from USDE stating they were reverting all states back to the pre-March 28 status for ARP liquidation extensions due to a pending lawsuit from multiple states that has caused fairness and uniformity issues in the ARP Liquidation Extension implementation across states.
This means that TEA can reinstate the EANS and GAPS Liquidation Extension projects, for now. It is important to note that this reinstatement only applies until the existing court case is resolved and TEA has no way of knowing how long this reinstatement will last. If the court case is resolved and USDE reinstates the March 28 letter, then we still have the reconsideration request in progress, but everything would be suspended again.
Any documentation for allowable expenditures submitted to ClassWallet during this time must continue to be allowable, legal expenditures under the original liquidation extension and submitted on a timely, ongoing basis. Note that the manual process at TEA and USDE for these payments will remain slower than usual.
10AM Wednesday October 22, 2025
10AM Wednesday November 5, 2025
2PM Wednesday November 19, 2025
10AM Wednesday December 3, 2025
2PM Wednesday December 10, 2025
All services and assistance requests and supporting documentation must be submitted in the ClassWallet portal on or before 01-31-2026 by 11:59PM CST. This includes vendor documentation such as invoices, labor/timesheets, etc.
Schools should work with the preferred vendor(s) to ensure they receive all vendor-related documentation for timely submission in the ClassWallet portal by the program end date.
All third-party services must end on or before the program end date.
No requests or documentation will be accepted after 01-31-2026. This is the final date for both EANS II and GAPS program.
Schools submitting requests during the month of February will have additional time for corrections and may result in unused program funding due to the upcoming program end date.
All requests must be:
Reasonable, necessary and allocable.
Secular, neutral and non-ideological.
All items are State property and are subject to return at the end of the program period.
Inventory disposition is still under review. If there is a change to guidance, TEA will provide the information to participating schools via email.
Service allocations not expended by the end of the program period must be returned to the USDE. They cannot transfer to another program.
EANS II and GAPS (GEER) Liquidation Extension Request was Approved
On Wednesday, September 11th, The Texas Education Agency (TEA) received official notice from the U.S. Department of Education that the ARP EANS II and GAPS (GEER) Liquidation Extension request was approved. This approval allows for Private Non-Profit (PNP) schools to continue to receive services until the end of January 2026.
The purpose of the GEER Grants is to provide services or assistance to eligible private nonprofit schools (PNPs) to address educational disruptions caused by COVID-19. By creating a separate reservation of funds for this purpose, Congress reiterated the need for PNPs to participate in emergency education relief programs by establishing a separate program under GEER II, rather than relying on the equitable services requirements that typically apply to elementary and secondary formula grant programs. Consequently, school districts are not required to provide equitable services for funds received under the CRRSA Act, though equitable services requirements continue to apply to CARES Act ESSER I program.
TEA Update
October 4, 2023
Grant Dates
EANS II- August 2022- September 30, 2024
*Currently in liquidation period. Liquidation period ends January 31, 2026
GAPS- August 2022- September 30, 2024
*Currently in liquidation period. Liquidation period ends January 31, 2026