(WJFW) - Three Northwoods school districts will be getting federal dollars to invest in electric buses all part of the Clean School Bus Rebate Program.
Milwaukee s public schools will receive more than a third of the $2.2 billion in federal relief funding being sent to Wisconsin classrooms to navigate and recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
The $797 million allocated for Milwaukee amounts to $11,242 per student the second-highest distribution of COVID-19 relief funding. On the lowest end, the McFarland School District in suburban Madison will receive $107 per student, according to an analysis released by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
Republicans who control the state s budget-writing committee pressed state education officials Tuesday on the dispensation of federal relief, which was made under a formula that relies heavily on the concentration of children living in poverty which is 83% of Milwaukee s student body.
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