There were more fifth graders in Arlington Public Schools who needed intensive reading support at the end of the last school year than at the beginning, according to county data.
For more than three years, parents of students with disabilities have tried to recoup special education services their children lost when the pandemic closed schools. In Virginia, state education officials could be partly to blame. The federal government is investigating whether the Virginia Department of Education misled school districts about their responsibility to serve students […]
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(Updated 12:20 a.m.) Before the coronavirus, Reade Bush’s son was a talkative child with autism and ADHD who loved school and his friends.
But the pandemic changed the world and in turn changed him. Without a routine and social opportunities, his son created an imaginary world “with 52 friends.” By summertime, he struggled to distinguish his real world from his imaginary one. He began hallucinating.
“On his ninth birthday, he asked me, ‘Daddy, can I die for my birthday? ” he recounted to some members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Labor and Education Committee last Thursday. Encouraged by another APS parent, who had connections on Capitol Hill, Bush told members of the Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education Subcommittee about the ways COVID-19 has impacted students with disabilities.
Arlington County parents push for in-person learning with rally in park
By Ayesha Khan
A group of Arlington County parents rallied on Saturday for a return to the classroom.
ARLINGTON, Va. - Teachers are going back to school so why can’t our kids?
That was the question many parents in Arlington County continued to ask Saturday morning as they pushed for getting their kids back into the classroom again.
Dozens of them with signs in hand showed up to Quincy Park, holding a rally to voice their support for reopening, especially for those students and their families who choose a hybrid model.