Ohio’s education leaders and lawmakers are trying to come up with ways to help K-12 children recoup some of the learning they’ve missed during the pandemic. Statehouse correspondent Jo Ingles reports.
Republican Senate Education Committee chair Andrew Brenner (R-Delaware) says federal dollars have been given to schools to help them with remedial learning for kids who lost ground during remote and interrupted learning. And he says lawmakers are coming up with a plan to get college students studying for education jobs to help tutor kids.
“So, we can pay these students to come in maybe an hour a day for five days a week or however often we can get them in there to sit down with small groups of students to help tutor them to get them caught back up.”
The Ohio Department of Education says students scored about eight points lower in state language arts tests last year and 15 points lower in math. Brenner says one district scored a 1.9% in math.