Tri-Cities school districts are experiencing a jump in enrollments in their Alternative Learning Experience homeschooling programs for students in the wake of COVID-19. | Pixabay
Tri-Cities school districts are experiencing a jump in enrollments in their Alternative Learning Experience homeschooling programs for students in the wake of COVID-19. | Pixabay
Enrollment in Alternative Learning Experience homeschooling programs has increased in school districts in the Tri-Cities in light of COVID-19.
The Tri-City Herald reported that “hundreds of Tri-Cities parents” are homeschooling their children in the wake of the coronavirus.
The Richland School District and Kennewick School District have parent-partnership programs for Alternative Learning Experience (the Pasco School District doesn’t have such a program), the Tri-City Herald reported.
“Alternative Learning Experience (ALE) is public education where some or all of the instruction is delivered outside of a regular classroom schedule,” according to the website of the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Richland School District offers the “publicly funded and accredited” K-12 Three Rivers HomeLink Alternative Learning Experience, said Three Rivers HomeLink’s website.
HomeLink, which usually has “20 new applications each fall,” had approximately 200 his year, the Tri-City Herald reported. There were 450 enrollments before HomeLink had a rush of applications last year as well.
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