This podcast is a visit with Bryan ISD associate superintendent Barbara Ybarra and WTAW's Bill Oliver.

Bryan ISD school board members are told that June's summer school enrollment increased over 2020 and 2019.

2021 enrollment was 5,397, enrollment during the pandemic in 2020 was 2,297, and enrollment the year before the pandemic in 2019 was 3,305.

Associate superintendent Barbara Ybarra said there was a record number of teachers who signed up for June's summer school and the district's July power camps, where more than 1,200 incoming first through ninth grade students will prepare for the upcoming school year.

Dr. Ybarra told WTAW News "I think our teachers definitely understand the need to support our students all summer, and particular this summer, in getting them ready to transition. We know there's work to do. We know our students have needs that academically that need to be shored up before they enter that next grade."