From the brief: "In preparing for the 2020-21 school year, Virginia school divisions developed plans to deliver meaningful remote instruction that improved upon the “emergency” instruction they provided when the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly closed schools in March 2020. Divisions had to consider how students would access curriculum if they were not in the school building, how teachers would provide instruction, and whether teachers would be responsible for teaching students both inperson and online. Our analysis of division reopening plans found:

• Most divisions provided online curriculum to their students with fewer divisions providing electronic or physical curriculum.
• Communities in which fewer than 90% of residences connected to broadband internet infrastructure were 2-3 times more likely to provide electronic curriculum. Rural and town divisions were much more likely to provide electronic curriculum compared to suburb and city divisions.
• About two-thirds of divisions provided both synchronous and asynchronous instruction to their students. Very few provided fully synchronous instruction.
• About half of Virginia’s school divisions indicated that teachers would be providing instruction to both in-person and online students, but only about one-fifth indicated that this would be occurring concurrently."