{"id":14474,"date":"2020-03-19T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/19\/local-schools-struggle-to-provide-online-classes\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:38:00","slug":"local-schools-struggle-to-provide-online-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrokids.com\/local-schools-struggle-to-provide-online-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Schools Struggle to Provide Online Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Has your school started offering online instruction yet? If not, you aren't alone.<\/p>\n
Two-thirds of those who responded to our MetroKids<\/a> survey on Facebook<\/a> say their schools are not yet offering online classes.<\/p>\n Pennsylvania says schools do not have to offer cyber learning, but if they do, all students must have equal access. <\/p>\n "Whatever decision is made, (they) must ensure full access to learning for all students, with particular attention to free appropriate public education (FAPE) for students with disabilities and English as a second language (ESL) services for English Learners," Pennsylvania's education department says on its website.<\/a><\/p>\n Philadelphia School District has already decided it can't offer remote learning because not every student will be able to access it.<\/p>\n "If that’s not available to all children, we cannot make it available to some,” Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said, according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n