The "Return to Learn" plan allows schools to choose if and how students return to school in the fall. | Pixabay
The "Return to Learn" plan allows schools to choose if and how students return to school in the fall. | Pixabay
Rep. Andrea Schroeder's (R-Independence Township) "Return to Learn" initiative encourages the use of technology and distance learning to help keep students, teachers and families healthy as classes resume this fall.
The plan allows individual school districts to make decisions based on what is most appropriate for their needs. Schools would be allowed to set their own start dates. K-12 schools would be provided with an $800-per-student payment to help ensure students would have the required materials for distance learning. Teachers would be given $500 in hazard and overtime pay to help transition to distance learning.
Attendance would be redefined as "engaged in instruction" to accommodate learning outside of the traditional classroom. Snow days would be limited to encourage the use of remote instruction.
Rep. Andrea Schroeder
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The $1.3 billion plan would be funded by federal COVID-19 relief dollars.
"I know the educators in our community are professional, talented and dedicated," Schroeder said, according to Michigan House Republicans. "The 'Return to Learn' plan will provide them with the support and flexibility they need to ensure learning continues both inside and outside the classroom."
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