KILMARNOCK—Lancaster schools’ director of student achievement and accountability Anna Kellum detailed the division’s plan for addressing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s All-In VA plan, launched in September to address post-COVID learning loss and absenteeism in schools. Kellum told the school board on Monday, December 11, the plan has a three-pronged approach toward attendance, literacy and learning.
“Students across Virginia continue to struggle with meeting benchmarks in math and reading,” said Kellum. “In 2022-23 more than half of our third through eighth grade students across the state either failed or were at-risk of failing SOL tests in reading. In math, it was two-thirds.”
Over the next three years, the Lancaster schools will receive $168,640 from the state focused on three categories. Some 70% of that, $118, 047, will go toward high intensity tutoring for grades 3 through 8. Along with remediation built into the school day, tutors will be trained and assigned to students along with a personalized remediation plan….
