Nationally, data suggests that even as classrooms reopened post-COVID, some students remained at home, with families opting to homeschool instead. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many American families turned to nontraditional options to educate their children, like co-ops, private schools, and homeschooling. According to experts, many of those families have kept their children out of public school systems and have instead continued homeschooling students, even as schools reopened post-pandemic. A recent report from The74 on the…

Maryland will soon join the National Partnership for Student Success and offer $10 million in grant funding for post-pandemic tutoring initiatives to help close the "COVID gap." Maryland is joining the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) and investing around $10 million to help students across the state regain traction after pandemic-related learning loss. The NPSS is a research-based, locally-driven public-private partnership between the U.S. Department of Education, AmeriCorps, and the NPSS Hub at the…

Maryland was recently highlighted by a national bipartisan organization of superintendents and state education leaders for its successful use of education COVID-19 relief funding. Chiefs for Change is a bipartisan national organization of state and district education system leaders who "collectively advocate for policies and practices that make a difference for students and work to develop the next generation of bold Future Chiefs." The organization's recent report, titled "A Work in Progress: How Covid Aid…