Education Fact Check: COVID Relief Funding
How does Governor McMaster’s $32 million SAFE Grants program compare to other education related COVID relief funding?
Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund
Total: $48.4 million
- From the CARES Act, flowed through the South Carolina Department of Administration
SAFE Grants: $32 million
Funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): $2.4 million
Total COVID Relief for Public School
Total: $543.1 million
Academic Recovery Camps, Five days of Academic Instruction, and Food Service: $222.7 million
- Allocated via H5202 as part of the $1.9 Billion Coronavirus Relief Fund
Elementary & Secondary School Relief Fund: $216.3 million
- From the CARES Act, flowed through SC Dept. of Education
Child Nutrition Programs: $54.1 million
- From the CARES Act, flowed through SC Dept. of Education
Broadband mapping and planning, infrastructure, and mobile hotspots: $50 million
- Allocated via H5202 as part of the $1.9 Billion Coronavirus Relief Fund
