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Mars Area learning loss program paused due to staffing issues

Parents and school administration officials discussed a current pause to the after-school Reading Rockets learning loss program at a Mars Area School Board meeting on Tuesday night.

The program, intended to combat learning loss from the COVID-19 pandemic and help catch up students who may have fallen behind, is currently paused at the elementary level due to a lack of available staff.

Mars parent Julia Konitzky asked whether the program could potentially be continued with outside staffers.

“I had heard from multiple people, and I don’t know if there was any data collection, that the Reading Rockets was really doing a great thing for those children who were enrolled,” she said. “I would imagine a lot of them were enrolled because they did have true learning loss from COVID.”

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