Supervisors allocate $8.8M in CARES Act funding to Henrico Schools
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The Henrico Board of Supervisors Oct. 27 allocated $8.8 million in funding from the federal CARES Act to the Henrico School Board. It was the third installment of CARES Act money school officials have received since May; in total, those three amount to nearly $33 million.
The new funding (which amounts to $175 per student) will be used to reimburse the school system for purchases made as far back as mid-March – including the purchase of new laptops and tablets for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first-grade students, as well as hundreds of WiFi hotspots for families who don’t have internet service at home, Henrico Schools Chief of Staff Beth Teigen told the Board of Supervisors during its meeting Tuesday night.
The school system has until Nov. 15 to exhaust the new funds or else offer them back to the state.
