The grants are being issued to nine community organizations that will provide math and reading help in D.C. schools through next school year
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser previously said her administration would commit $39 million in federal recovery dollars to “high-impact tutoring”High-impact tutoring involves individual or small group sessions.
“In some schools, you’ll see tutoring occur before school or after school, some schools will have it interwoven in their instructional day,” said Christina Grant, D.C.'s state superintendent of education. “We were very clear that coming back from the pandemic was going to involve and require a new approach to learning, to make sure that our children were in school safe and on this journey of recovering from a global pandemic.
Similar to most parts of the country, math and reading scores in D.C. plummeted when students returned to classrooms. Less than one-third of students citywide were reading at or above grade level and just 19 percent passed the math exam in 2022, results of D.C.'s standardized test,
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