New Study: North Carolina Parents Praise Summer Learning Programs But, Even Before COVID 19, Programs Were Out of Reach for Many North Carolina Children
iCrowd Newswire
20 May 2021, 05:39 GMT+10
New Study: North Carolina Parents Praise Summer Learning Programs But, Even Before COVID?19, Programs Were Out of Reach for Many North Carolina Children
Parents Cite Cost as the Greatest Barrier to Participation
WASHINGTON, DC - May 19, 2021 After a year of isolation, learning loss, and trauma for many students, this summer will be especially important for young people to begin to heal, re-connect, and make learning gains. Yet a study released today finds that even before the pandemic, some 400,713 North Carolina children and youth were without access to summer learning programs. This was 33% of North Carolina children not in a summer program whose parents wanted to enroll them. In fact, for every North Carolina child in a summer learning program in 2019, one more was waiting to get in.