Middlesex County Public School Superintendent Dr. Tracy Seitz informed the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors that elementary summer school funds are not available and there will be no program.
The Sentinel reached out to Dr. Seitz to explain further the reasons for the elimination of the summer school program. In an email she said, “We first received the notification from VDOE (Virginia Department of Education) that we fell below the (child poverty) criteria to receive (federal) Title V Part B funding for the 2024-2025 school year.
“The 2024-2025 award uses 2020 Child-Poverty Census Data. The (child poverty) rate needs to be at least 20% and we dropped to 19% in the 2020 census,” said Dr. Seitz.
