Today is the first day of summer school in Roanoke Public Schools. Administrators say summer sessions help improve student achievement during the regular school year, and there are numbers to prove it. The story from News/Talk 960’s Evan Jones.

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Click here for general Roanoke City Public Schools summer school information.

Click here to access bus routes for this year’s summer session.