Nearly two-thirds of fourth graders aren't proficient readers. Half of Ohio's kids use Medicaid, and a quarter of students were chronically absent.
Their rates of depression and/or anxiety climbed by 42% from 2016 to 2020, according to theChronic absenteeism"skyrocketed" by 45% from 2019 to 2021. And the numbers for children of color and those in Appalachia were significantly worse than their white, suburban counterparts.
The rise in childhood reports of mental health concerns led the U.S. surgeon general to label the issue a youth “mental health pandemic" earlier this year. She thinks Ohio's school districts can help by adding mental health services and counseling in their buildings. The rate of teen moms per 1,000 kids went from 6.8 to 6.2, which translates into about 1,500 births in 2021. The majority of those babies, however, were born to minor children of color. And it's worth noting that 85% of those Black students fall into the economically disadvantaged category and 62% receive federal food benefits. For white children, those percentages are 37% and 18%, respectively.
Paxson and Eckhardt both said you can see this disparity starting to emerge in the reading scores of elementary school children. Overall, Ohio hasn't moved the needle on fourth-grade reading proficiency in the last decade, according to the KIDS COUNT data.
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