Estimating costs for applications
Each spring/summer, a district submits a single application for funding for the upcoming school year. This single district application requests funds for all schools within the district that plan to participate in outdoor school. We created a tool to help schools estimate their outdoor school costs prior to submission of the district’s outdoor school application.
Cost estimating tool
This tool is intended to:
- Support districts in gathering information needed to complete the funding application — specifically estimates of anticipated outdoor school costs for each school.
- Encourage early planning for outdoor school — especially related to identifying anticipated barriers to student participation and requesting funding for resources to support full participation.
- Reduce the need for changes to funding requests after the application period.
- Districts will still be able to request additional funding after they have submitted their application, if needed, for unforeseen expense changes and additional student support.
- To minimize these requests, the district will need to show that it used the cost estimating tool and followed steps one and two above.
