School districts spending millions of dollars to address COVID learning loss

Name: School districts spending millions of dollars to address COVID learning loss
Uploaded: 2022-06-20T22:00:00.000Z
Duration: 2 min 21 s
Description: Students across the state have struggled during the past two years. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted school closures that lasted a year or longer for some students--forcing many to try to navigate virtual learning, sometimes in the absence of working parents. Some students with developmental delays weren't able to get the same level of attention they might have received in person.

Students across the state have struggled during the past two years. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted school closures that lasted a year or longer for some students--forcing many to try to navigate virtual learning, sometimes in the absence of working parents. Some students with developmental delays weren't able to get the same level of attention they might have received in person.

Posted 6/20/2022, 10:00:00 PM Updated 6/20/2022, 10:58:17 PM

NEWS COVERAGE. YOU CAN COME

HOME.

>> SOME STUDENTS ARE MONTHS

BEHIND IN READING EVEN MORE

THAN A YEAR IN MATH. NOW,

SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN OUR AREA ARE

TRYING A NEW APPROACH TO HELP

TACKLE LEARNING LOSS IN THE

CLASSROOM. THANKS FOR JOINING

US ON DAN HAGGERTY. AND I'M

LENA TILLETT. SCHOOLS ARE

PAYING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO

HIRE TUTORS COACHES IN

SPECIALIST FOR THE KIDS WRAL'S

DURHAM REPORTER SARAH KRUEGER

TEAMED UP WITH OUR EDUCATION

INSIDER. EMILY WALKING HORST

TO EXAMINE THESE NEW ROLES.

AND IF THEY'RE WORKING.

356 MILLION DOLLARS, THAT IS

HOW MUCH SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN OUR

AREA PLAN TO SPEND ON THIS.

THERE IS A BIG NEED AS MANY

STUDENTS HAVE FALLEN BEHIND DUE

TO COVID EARLY INDICATIONS ARE

THIS.

>> IS WORKING IN A CLASSROOM

FULL OF STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT

ABILITY LEVELS. THERE'S ONLY

SO MUCH ONE TEACHER CAN DO.

>> CAN WE CATCH THEM UP?

ACADEMICALLY WE CAN TRY AND

IT'S I CAN TELL YOU THEY'RE

NOT AT THE POINT WHERE.

AND ANOTHER YEAR THEY WOULD BE.

THAT'S THE CASE FOR LANE

PECO'S. A FIRST GRADE TEACHER

AT WILDWOOD FOREST ELEMENTARY

IN RALEIGH.

>> THANKFULLY HELP HAS ARRIVED

IN THE FORM OF RACHEL CORRIE,

A FAMILY LITERACY TO DO HERE.

I WAS, OF SPOKE TO TUR'S LIKE

ARE BRIDGING THE GAP WORKING

ONE-ON-ONE WITH STUDENTS TO

IMPROVE READING SKILLS.

AWESOME. AND I LOVE TO SEE SOME

WAYS IN TOTAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS

ACROSS OUR AREA HAVE DEVOTED

356 MILLION DOLLARS TO THE

EFFORT THAT INCLUDES 43 MILLION

BY WAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS.

28 MILLION FROM DURHAM AND 3.3

MILLION FROM ORANGE. LAUREN

PIPER, LITERACY COORDINATOR

FOR GRANVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS

SAYS THE EXTRA HANDS ARE

ALREADY MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN

JUST THE ONE YEAR THEY'VE BEEN

AROUND. SHE'S SEEN THAT

FIRSTHAND IN HER SECOND GRADE

SON. MY HEART JUST EXPLODES

WHEN THIS.

JUST GRATITUDE THAT HE WAS BEEN

ABLE TO TO ACCOMPLISH THIS MUCH

GROWTH IN AT HALF.

>> AND AS FAR AS THE SOURCE

OF THAT 356 MILLION DOLLARS,

THAT HAS BEEN ALLOTTED, THAT IS