WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to upend life in the U.S. and growing numbers of schools have announced closures through the end of the 2019-2020 school year, formal, school-sponsored distance learning programs for K-12 children are ramping up.In the two weeks that Gallup has been tracking the ways in which U.S.
schoolchildren are being educated during the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of parents who say their child is learning remotely through a school-sponsored online distance learning program has grown from 65% to 83%.At the same time, the percentage of parents saying their child is being home-schooled using a parent-designed curriculum has fallen from 32% to 24%.