A new report on Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) so-called acceleration days show that while thousands of students attended the bonus days over winter break, the numbers were lower than initially reported by the district.
The districts first of several acceleration days, held on Dec. 19 and 20, are a part of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s plan to help the district’s 420,000 students recover from pandemic-induced learning loss.
In the week leading up to the acceleration days, Carvalho wrote on Twitter roughly 70,000 students were registered, and on Dec. 20 he told LA Daily News that more than 60,000 students attended the first day….