High-Dosage Tutoring for 100K Kids: How a District Settled a Learning Loss Case
Education equity advocates say they’ve reached “an important milestone” in addressing pandemic-era learning loss after the Los Angeles Unified School District agreed to provide three years of high-dosage tutoring and other remediation services to more than 100,000 of its 390,000 K-12 students.
The agreement, which attorneys are calling “one of the largest education class-action settlements in history,” results from a September 2020 case brought by parents who argued the nation’s second-largest school district’s remote learning was inadequate and inequitable. The settlement, announced Sept. 3, awaits approval from the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, but implementation is “already underway,” plaintiffs’ lawyers said. [Source: EducationWeek -- Read more ...]
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