With $7.1 million in provincial funding, Hamilton’s public schools were able to hire extra staff to help kids catch up after more than two years of pandemic learning disruptions, according to school board trustees.
But that one-time COVID-19 Learning Recovery Fund for 2022 to 2023 is about to end, despite many students having not fully recovered academically, socially or emotionally, said board chair Dawn Danko.
That’s why she, on behalf of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) trustees, sent a letter to Minister of Education Stephen Lecce this week, urging him to extend the program.