Students in Beaver and Lawrence counties returned to blended in-person and remote learning this week, with others likely to make the transition in February.
Pennsylvania’s Department of Education urged school administrators to implement full remote learning in late November following high COVID-19 transmission rates in multiple counties. Most local districts – reporting several positive cases in staff and students – abided by the guidance.
Acting Secretary of Education Noe Ortega earlier this month encouraged districts to offer some in-person instruction to elementary pupils as early as Jan. 25 if proper social distancing and sanitizing efforts are in place.
The state also recommended in-person instruction be offered to students with disabilities and those learning English, and advised schools to move younger students to a blended model of learning.
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Report: At-risk Pennsylvania schools shorted millions in COVID-19 aid
School districts, including Aliquippa, Big Beaver Falls Area and New Castle Area, would have received thousands more in federal COVID-19 aid had the state used a fair funding model to distribute the money, a new report shows.
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Pennsylvania’s delivery of some federal COVID-19 aid to schools shortchanged districts with a high density of poor and minority students, including in local counties, a new report finds.
State districts with the highest poverty rates received millions less than their wealthy equivalents, and two-and-a-half times less than if a fair funding formula had been used in the second round of Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act distribution, according to a recent analysis by the Keystone Research Center.