RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Jonathan Oliva is in third grade, but struggles to read and write. “His teacher said he’s like a kindergartner. He doesn’t know anything. And she can’t help because her class is too big,” his mother, Veronica Lucas, said in Spanish, standing in the parking lot outside his elementary school.
Facing massive pandemic learning loss, the superintendent in Richmond, Virginia, tried to remake one of the most untouchable aspects of school – the academic calendar
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While Richmond school board members said it would be too expensive and disruptive, in Hopewell, pushed forward. In 2021, theirs became the first Va district to adopt year-round schooling systemwide.