Billions of dollars in state and federal pandemic relief have yet to pay academic dividends with K-12 students, although officials remain optimistic.
Most California students continue to struggle from pandemic learning setbacks and do not meet grade level standards in math and reading, new state test scores show, with incremental gains in math but largely flat or slightly declining results in English.
was responsible for many absences. Last year, nearly 55% of absences were excused; some of them related to quarantines were required. State Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond found enough positive in the new data to conclude that the state was 'beginning to turn the corner on pandemic recovery.' There also were increases in the more recently created state science tests, although these scores remained low — at about the level of the math scores. In L.A.
pandemic, she said. 'Traditionally, math scores are more responsive to school factors than English language arts scores, because kids don't tend to use math outside of school,' Darling-Hammond said. 'When we were in the pandemic years, math scores dropped further' than English scores. Conversely, she added, it would make sense that math scores would show more of a rebound: 'So that piece makes sense.' Even with the improvement, L.A.
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