Local Indiana Schools Receive Governor’s Emergency Education Relief

The grants are designed to improve connectivity and increase devices available to students and teachers.

(Indianapolis, Ind.) – Local schools will benefit from a grant program designed to improve connectivity and increase device and resources available to students and teachers.

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced Wednesday that $61 million in Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) funding is being distributed to school corporations, colleges and universities through out the state.

The grants will fund a minimum of 68,689 student devices, nearly 2,900 teacher devices, and more than 85,000 connectivity solutions, according to information provided by applicants.

Applicants submitted plans that included the purchase or upgrade of student and teacher devices and laptops, including Chromebooks, MacBooks and iPads. Plans also included mi-fi devices with corresponding subscription plans for families who lack reliable internet connectivity.

Locally, Lawrenceburg Community School Corporation was awarded $625,000.

Milan, Batesville, South Ripley, Jac-Cen-Del, Oldenburg Academy and St. Louis School were grouped together in receiving $250,000.

Switzerland County Schools also received funding of $64,000.

Grant awardees include 184 traditional school corporations representing 1,366 schools, 64 public charter schools, and 124 non-public schools. There are almost 674,500 students enrolled in schools receiving these grants.

GEER was established by the federal CARES Act. Traditional public school corporations, public charter schools, accredited non-public schools, higher education institutions, and other education-related entities were eligible to apply. An application could be completed by a single school corporation or a combination of eligible education entities.

A full list of grant recipients is available here.