By Richard Bammer

State and local stay-at-home orders amid the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted never-before-seen experiments with online education at schools across the nation, and the process began Monday in Fairfield-Suisun Unified.

In Solano County’s largest school district, with 22,000 across 30 sites, the educational services department has devised family-friendly ways and means to help students press on, in the meantime, with their education outside the traditional school site setting.

Virtual school, aka known as “distance learning,” has existed for decades, but it has not been a common practice in American public schools because of digital inequities among students and concerns about implications for teachers, among other reasons.

Source: Coronavirus: FSUSD leaders offer family-friendly tips, tools for ‘distance learning’ – The Reporter