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Five-day-a-week in-person learning will be the default for Prince William County Public School students this fall, according to a plan prepared for the county School Board.
The plan, scheduled to be presented by Superintendent Steve Walts at Wednesday night’s board meeting, says that virtual learning will be an option for students at all grade levels. However, a preliminary survey by the school division indicates that 85% of parents plan for their students to return to classes in person.
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Prince William Education Association President Maggie Hansford spoke before the Prince William County School Board on February 8 to push for raises for school employees.
I just want to start off by making Dr. Walts for making educators a priority in this year’s budget.
There are a couple of things that I would like you to consider when you are working on this year’s budget. I know you have a lot of priorities and a tall task.
I would like for you to consider a 2% cost of living adjustment for our staff. It looks like inflation is estimated at 2 percent, so a staffer earning their STEP (salary increase), and the cost of living (salary increase) every year should reflect that inflation.
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Prince William County Public Schools currently has more students back in the classroom than perhaps any other school district in the region, with more than 13,000 children in Pre-K through third grades now getting two days per week of in-person instruction.
Those are students whose parents chose the hybrid learning model.
The school district s current plan would then allow kids in 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th grades whose parents chose the hybrid learning model to return to the classroom beginning February 25. Students in 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades would follow on March 2.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, in a national day of action, the leaders of more than a dozen unions and associations representing more than 48,000 public school teachers and educators across multiple school districts in the greater Washington, DC region united together behind the demand for a shared set of reopening standards to protect students.
More than half of school children surveyed in Prince William County say they’re having problems focusing on their work.
The children, who attend classes virtually, say teachers are too quick to assign work and aren’t taking the time to explain the lesson.
In late November, Prince William County Public Schools received 56,000 responses to an online survey to gauge how virtual education is progressing during the pandemic. The majority of the 89,000 students in the school division are taking online classes as officials have opted to leave many classrooms shuttered in the wake of rising cases of the coronavirus.
A total of 61% of the 26,000 middle and high school students surveyed said they couldn’t concentrate during online coursework and virtual video lectures. At the elementary level, 35% of 13,000 children surveyed said they were having problems focusing.