The Wave, Petersburg City Public School s new family engagement bus, is set to open sometime mid-April.
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PETERSBURG There’s a new wave coming to Petersburg City Public Schools, and it s riding a bus.
The city’s school system is set to launch The Wave, a family-engagement bus centered around delivering and providing resources and information to students and their families within the city.
“We’re just trying to fill the gaps in many ways,” said Pamela Bell, chief student advancement officer for PCPS.
The bus was a part of the 2020-2021 PCPS Reopening of School plan, and was slated to launch in the fall but was pushed back due to the switch to virtual learning. Now, the $65,000 bus is weeks away from its launch the week of April 19.
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The Progress-Index We anticipated that something like that was going to be coming forward, in all honesty, Pitre-Martin said, when asked about Northam s announcement on Saturday at Petersburg s vaccination event at Petersburg High School.
Pitre-Martin also expressed confidence that PCPS will be able to meet the Governor s demands. Petersburg has not offered in-person learning to students since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
That confidence is due to plans that offered a hybrid learning model, that would have allowed students to return to the classroom. The plan was presented to the Petersburg School Board in a June meeting, prior to the 2020-21 school year. At the time, however, Pitre-Martin recommended that PCPS open only virtually, and the school board supported her recommendation.