Expect a mad-dash from schools across Wisconsin to spend the rest of their coronavirus stimulus money.
The Institute for Reforming Government says two-thirds of Wisconsin’s one-and-a-half billion-dollars in ESSER money remains unspent or unallocated. The ESSER money is the money Congress sent the state to help schools recover from the coronavirus. IRG’s Quinton Klabon says of the money that’s been allocated, just over half has gone into classrooms. Schools have until the fall of 2024 to decide how to spend the money, but schools are making some of those decisions this spring. IRG this week launched a website that helps track where that money will go.
