(Des Moines) This week, Governor Kim Reynolds announced the recipient schools of the Teacher and Paraeducator Registered Apprenticeship Pilot Grant Program.
AHSTW was awarded $1,656,907. Superintendent Darin Jones said Governor Reynold unveiled this program back in January and with that AHSTW engaged with multiple school districts, including Atlantic, Central Decatur, Clarinda, East Mills, Exira EHK, Fremont Mills, Glenwood, Griswold, Harlan, IKM Manning, Lamoni, Lenox, Logan-Magnolia, Missouri Valley, Riverside, Sidney, South Page, Stanton, Treynor, Tri-Center and Woodbine.
The grant program will provide opportunities for current high school students and adults to earn a paraeducator certificate and associates degree and paraeducators to earn their bachelor’s degree all while learning and working in the classroom. The program will begin this fall during the 2022-2023 school year.
Other area schools receiving awards include:
Council Bluffs – $709,879.
Winterset – $561,726 along with partnering districts Van Meter, Creston and Interstate 35.
Cherokee – $6,376,113 along with the following partnering districts: Algona, Audubon, Bedford, Bellevue, Calamus Wheatland, Greene, Central Decatur, CAM, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Eagle Grove, East Mills, East Marshall, Edgewood-Colesburg, Fairfield, Glenwood, Griswold, Harlan, Kingsley Pierson, Knoxville, Marshalltown, Mt. Ayr, Nodaway Valley, Northeast, Osage, Riceville, River Valley, Sidney, South Page and Westwood.
Funding is made available through the American Rescue Plan Act.
The full list of award winners can be found here: Teacher and Paraeducator RA_2022 Grant Awardees_1
