Nearly one-third of parents want to stick with remote learning. 

Nearly one-third of parents want to stick with remote learning. According to an NPR/Ipsos poll, 62% of parents say their child’s education has been disrupted, and more than four out of five (which includes just over half of parents “who support the idea of summer school”) want to see schools provide targeted extra services to help their children catch up. Half of parents say their kids were remote learning, a third were attending in-person full-time, while the remainder only attended in-person part-time—and 43% of parents say they switched among virtual, in-person, or hybrid since the previous fall. Black and Hispanic parents were far more likely than white parents to say their children were all remote—65% for Black parents and 57% for Hispanic parents compared to 38% of white parents. But because full-time learning would be a “difficult milestone to reach” unless CDC guidelines are altered, cases decline further, or schools receive large infusions of money since staying six feet apart only works with hybrid scheduling due to classroom sizes, 29% of parents are likely to stick with remotely learning indefinitely. Now, many school districts are looking at continuing to offer a remote public school option, districtwide or even statewide to make it more efficient. (NPR)