Worcester schools distributing science kits to homebound students
WORCESTER – The district this week will begin distributing thousands of science kits to elementary schools across the city, as part of a new drive to enable students to do more hands-on, experiment-based work.
In all, the School Department expects to give out 11,675 kits to students in prekindergarten through sixth grade over the next two weeks, which school staff assembled with about $70,000 in Title IV federal funding received by the district.
The initiative is the largest-scale effort to get actual school materials into the hands of kids since the district distributed work packets to students shortly after closing schools at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last March.