Governor Evers on Tuesday announced new rounds of funding into Wisconsin’s K-12 public and charter schools, steering $90 total from the federal American Rescue Plan Act, to provide mental health services as well as to help address staffing and inflation challenges. The Governor said he was making the investments after Republicans in the Legislature rewrote Evers’ education budget – essentially freezing local district spending – and then rejected a special session increase educations spending.
$15 million was added to an earlier $15 “Get Kids Ahead” initiative sent earlier this year for Mental Health Support, doubling that program. A new $75 million initiative is being distributed on a per-pupil basis to retain and recruit educators and staff, address rising costs for supplies and services due to national inflation, defray the cost of school bussing, and provide direct support for kids in the classroom.
Here’s how Sheboygan County Public School Districts are being apportioned those funds, showing the now-doubled “Get Kids Ahead” payments, as well as money from the new $75 million initiative:
School District Get Kids Ahead New Funding Total
Sheboygan Area $281,358.00 $895,913.00 $1,177,271.00
Sheboygan Falls $63,236.00 $148,210.00 $211,446.00
Plymouth $76.664.00 $194,241.00 $279,905.00
Kohler $32.630.00 $43,296.00 $75,926.00
Random Lake $40,768.00 $71,006.00 $111,774.00
Elk. Lake-Glenbeulah $31,248.00 $38,465.00 $69,713.00
Howards Grove $41,060.00 $72,191.00 $113,251.00
Oostburg $45,102.00 $86,046.00 $131,148.00
Cedar Grove-Belgium $45,660.00 $87,960.00 $133,620.00
Sheboygan County Total $4,207,074.00
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