TAMPA, Fla. — This week, Hillsborough County Schools will be sending a new survey to parents of the districts' more than 200,000 students.

The surveys will be similar to the one sent to parents prior to the start of school in August, as the district gauges how many students will transition between brick and mortar and eLearning in the second half of the school year.

As the district prepares for the second 18 weeks of the school year, board members today are expected to approve an educational plan.

Among its goals is tracking down students who have fallen through the cracks and have not reported for school.

"We have a number of students that have not connected with our school district," Superintendent Addison Davis said.   "We have a number of students that have missed a number of days."

To track those students down the district plans to use Truancy Officers as well as district staff.

Another key to the educational plan in 2021 is catching students up who have fallen behind in eLearning.

The superintendent says a new emergency order from the state will help.

"What the new emergency order allows us to do is to be able to identify students that have underperformed during this process and ask them to come back to brick and mortar to be able to have greater interventions and to support them."

Ultimately whether students return to the classroom will be a decision for parents.

It is unclear if any teacher shuffling will occur in the new year to accommodate changes in the number of brick and mortar and eLearners.

Those moves will be made after the district compiles results from the Declaration of Intent survey.