The state announced this week that teachers and support staff who worked through the pandemic are eligible for state grants.
The state’s budget set aside 53-million dollars for teachers and 20-million for support staff to receive payments recognizing their work in the spring.
Ron Leix is with the Treasury. He says support staff will be eligible for up to 250-dollars, K-12 teachers will be eligible for up to 500-dollars.
“It recognizes the efforts that teachers took during the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic. The legislature and the Governor thought it would be good to allocate a few dollars to help them out.”
Leix says teachers and support staff should reach out to the district they worked at during the 2019-2020 school year for more information.
A spokesperson for the Michigan Education Association said they hope as many educators and paraeducators as possible take advantage of the offer.