SOUTH WAYNE — Black Hawk School District announced on June 9 that it received a grant from the Black Hawk Excellence In Education Funds Spring 2022 Grant Cycle of the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, Inc.  

The grant will be used to support our reading and math intervention and enrichment programming. The district will purchase access to IXL, an online computer based learning system used to enhance math/ELA skill development for grades K-8th. IXL is an adaptive program and helps provide practice to students at the students’ individual proficiency level; both remedial and advanced.

For more information about this program, Cory Milz, Principal of Black Hawk Schools.

This grant is made available from the Community Foundation’s Black Hawk Excellence in Education Endowment Fund. The Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin is a resource for area nonprofit organizations whose programs and services are working for the betterment of our communities. Grants from the Black Hawk Excellence in Education Endowment Fund have supported the arts, education, environment, health and human services and historic preservation.

For more information on how to can support local communities through the Community Foundation, contact Linda Gebhardt at 608-758-0883, ext. 7007, email at Linda@cfsw.org, or visit www.cfsw.org. The Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin serves nine Wisconsin counties: Crawford, Grant, Green, lowa, Lafayette, Rock, Sauk, Vernon, and Walworth.