Voice your opinion with our online form. For the first time, Norwood Schools is launching a one-week kindergarten camp in August to get incoming students into the buildings a bit early. With a national push for early intervention, summer school students are getting younger and younger. Pressed to improve state test scores, Tristate schools from Boone to Clermont counties are expanding summer programs and zeroing in on children who lag behind. It's a big step for a kindergartner to go to school all day.
Summer school is no longer just for high school students who have to make up classes.
Many schools are emphasizing the basics, shifting their summer focus from keeping kids entertained with recreation and field trips to targeting students who are struggling, particularly in reading. It's trying to make sure you have intervention before kids fail. About 90,000 students are eligible this year. Kentucky does not mandate summer school. Instead, it helps districts pay for summer programs for struggling students.