Florida close to closing schools thru end of SCHOOL year. Decision to be made April 15

[Igel]

5. Depends on the state and its funding.

In Texas to continue receiving the per-student ADA-based funding schools will be expected to offer some sort of online or distance-learning courses. Otherwise they're not teaching. If the schools do that, the students will be deemed present for ADA purposes and the district will get its per-student/per-day funding.

The district I work for is going ahead with plans for online coursework and teachers have been notified that their payroll will be processed on schedule. It just takes somebody in the office for a couple of days per month to process the routine stuff, and with the district essentially shut all the non-routine stuff won't be happening.

That also includes long-term subs and anybody else who'd have been routinely paid, even if their first day of work was going to be the first day school was suspended.

ADA = average daily attendance; the school takes stock of the current enrollment on select days and class periods through the year, and that determines funding according to a formula; some of the funding is federal pass-through and some of it is contributed by the state.


I do have to add something, on edit: Right now "going ahead with plans for online coursework" is pretty meaningless. They're mostly just trying to come up with what the plans might be. As a teacher, no word on exactly how it's going to be implemented, how testing will occur, assignments collected and graded, etc., etc. And since I know my students, I don't really see that going nearly as well as the administrators do.