What school tutoring options are available in Northern Virginia districts?

Virginia is spending hundreds of millions of state dollars to help school districts launch high-intensity tutoring for students who performed poorly on state assessments last year.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) announced the tutoring initiative in September as part of the ALL in VA education plan designed to recover from pandemic-fueled learning loss and boost scores on the Standards of Learning, the state’s annual assessment. The plan allocates more than $400 million of state funds to districts to help with tutoring, literacy and fighting chronic absenteeism.

The plan recommends that 70 percent of the funding go to tutoring, which the state estimates hundreds of thousands of students will qualify for.

Youngkin initially challenged districts to have their tutoring services up and running by mid-October — about six weeks after he announced the plan — a timeline that school leaders and education experts questioned at the time. By Oct. 16, the state Education Department had approved only four funding plans.

In December, the department had approved plans for all 131 of the state’s divisions. Each district has had a slightly different approach to rolling out its tutoring program: Some already had intervention plans in place and are working to expand services. Other districts are starting a tutoring program from scratch. And some have not yet launched tutoring.

Here’s how schools divisions in Northern Virginia are offering tutoring under the new program:

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