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Acceleration, Not Remediation
Atlanta Public Schools is offering a Recovery Academy this summer, where officials expect to serve more than 20,000 kids.
“Our students will have the opportunity to receive virtual or in-person instruction that will help to address unfinished learning and academic learning loss,” APS Chief Academic Officer Yolanda Brown told the school board recently.
Nonetheless, most Atlanta school districts are taking a new approach to summer instruction.
“We do not use the term remediation; we use the term accelerated intervention,” Cobb County Superintendent Chris Ragsdale said at an April school board meeting. “Remediation indicates … you’re going to slow down. We don’t need students that are behind to be slowed down further. We need them to catch up.”
More Atlanta Public School students return to in-person learning
By FOX 5 Digital Team
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Hundreds of Atlanta Public Schools students returned to the classroom for the first time on Monday
ATLANTA - The next phase of Atlanta Public School students will return to face-to-face learning Monday morning.
Children in third through fifth grades will be back in the classroom Monday as part of the APS Return and Learn reopening plan.
Under the plan, the first wave of students began in-person learning exactly two weeks ago - children from pre-K through second grade and those in special education.
APS students return to face-to-face learning