When Aldine ISD introduced a plan in 2021 to extend the school year by 30 days at four campuses, staff at Vines EC/PK/K School told Lorena Cruz that the goal was to prevent learning loss over the summer.
Four years later, Cruz’s kindergartner and second grader may complain that their summer break is too short, but she sees her children holding on to what they learn in the classroom.
“If they have long vacations, when they return, everything they learned in the last year was more difficult for them,” Cruz said in Spanish.
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