Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts is backing a plan to help students catch up from the Covid-19 impacted learning loss.
Ricketts says teachers and schools had lots of challenges during the worst of the pandemic….

Ricketts says testing shows many students lost academic ground during remote learning…

Ricketts says a bill in the legislature would direct money to families to help their students catch up….

LB1240 would set up the “Family Directed Education Recovery Accounts.” It would use the free lunch guidelines to give families two thousand dollars for each eligible child.