By WMAL.com
Officials from Fairfax County Public Schools signed a half-million-dollar contract using COVID relief funding with Tutor.com to help make up for learning that was lost due to the pandemic.
- Parents are now questing the decision to fill the lost educational time with more remote learning opportunities, expressing disappointment in Fairfax officials for their decision to invest in virtual learning versus in-person instruction.
- Standardized test scores decreased in both math (25 points) and reading (8 points) in Fairfax county public schools according to reports released by the school district in 2021.
- What parents are saying: “It is definitely long overdue because I know that I and other people have been suggesting that they do what they can to get people caught up after a year of no school,” said Open FCPS cofounder Dee Jackson in an interview with The Washington Free Beacon. “But you would think that these people would have learned after the failure that was online learning that online tutoring will not work for probably 80 percent of the population, especially with certain subjects.”
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