The Government of Saskatchewan is announcing $37.5 million in approved funding for classrooms for emergent, one-time expenses, associated with keeping staff and students safe in schools. This is in addition to the $51 million in funding that was announced in September. The money comes from the over $150 million in the COVID contingency fund for education from provincial, federal and school division savings.

Minister of Education Dustin Duncan says. “This funding will provide for additional cleaning supplies, supports for online learning, and the more than 400 staff that have been hired through the first phase of funding”

As a part of this second round of funding, 51 applications have been approved to provide new funding to school divisions, qualified independent schools and historical high schools.

The government says that school division operating grants will not be adjusted based on actual enrollments for the 2020-21 school year. This means that school divisions and independent schools will continue to receive funding based on their projected enrollments and will not see a decrease to their funding.
There is $26 million remaining in the COVID contingency fund for education. The next intake for school division funding applications will be on March 1, 2021.