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Cape Cod Times
After a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, summer school programs will reappear in some Cape school districts.
The need is great, according to school officials.
Testing shows that students have fallen behind in math and English language arts, Monomoy Regional School Superintendent Scott Carpenter said.
“It’s a lag nationwide,” he said.
Carpenter said Monomoy students probably have more of a leg up students in grades K-7 have been attending class in person full time this school year but last year’s emergency switch to remote learning in March for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year has taken its toll.