03.02.2022 | City & State | In an emailed statement responding to Banks’ speech, Advocates for Children of New York – an advocacy group focused on students most at risk of discrimination and experiencing poor educational outcomes – said that this is one way remote learning options could be useful. “Virtual learning means that individual students don’t need to be limited by the training and expertise of the staff who happen to work in their school,” the group’s statement read. “For example, a teacher with training in evidence-based reading intervention at one school could be matched with students at multiple schools who need support learning to read.” Read article