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The first group of elementary students are set to walk inside JCPS schools on March 17, some for the first time and others for the first time in about a year.
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The district’s average participation rate of 90.7% serves as a dividing line of sorts in a trend that has Kentucky’s largest school bracing for a years-long effort to make up months of academic stagnation and decline for some of its poorest students.
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From the time Kentucky’s largest school district ceased in-person learning in March 2020 through Jan. 21, records obtained by WDRB News show JCPS teachers have written just 218 referrals for student misbehavior during nontraditional instruction.
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The exact timing of the district’s reopening strategy depends greatly on how many doses of COVID-19 vaccines are allocated for JCPS, Pollio told the Jefferson County Board of Education.
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"No matter how much I care and no matter how much I try, I can't do it all," W.E.B. DuBois Academy teacher Natalie Rashad said.
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Chief Academic Officer Carmen Coleman said the district will send families “nudge” letters developed by EveryDay Labs in hopes of boosting participation in nontraditional instruction, which has dipped every week since the 2020-21 school year began remotely Aug. 25.
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Board members Chris Brady, who represents District 7, and Linda Duncan, who represents District 5, said Tuesday that they will not be completely comfortable reopening Jefferson County Public Schools classrooms to students and staff until a COVID-19 vaccine is released or far in development.
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JCPS Chief Information Officer Kermit Belcher said Friday that the district’s decision came after Google added a waiting lobby feature for its video conferencing platform.
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“I just want people to see that our children are willing to learn, but our children are getting frustrated, too,” Cyndi Scott said. “My son, he wants to learn. He wants to be in school. He wants to learn everything he can, but he’s getting frustrated.”
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At that same September meeting, the board will also be asked to approve an agreement between Jefferson County Public Schools and Evolve502 to jointly open learning centers for groups of students while the district’s classes are held virtually, according to Pollio.