Remote learning programs online have been suspended by the Philadelphia School District while schools are shut down due to COVID-19.
FOX 29's Marcus Espinoza reports. PHILADELPHIA - In what School District of Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite is calling “new language,” Philadelphia school teachers have been directed to stop remote instruction over concerns of equity among students. “That language and that guidance was based on guidance we received from the Pennsylvania Department of Education and Federal Department of Education," Superintendent Hite said.
Dr. Hite says School District of Philadelphia teachers can still reach out to their students. “The one thing we are prohibiting; however, is a requirement to login, a requirement