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What the defeat of private school choice measures in three states signals for the movement
- Too many school districts are the equivalent of municipal water systems constantly producing cholera outbreaks
For some subgroups—including English learners and students with disabilities—achievement has largely recovered to pre-pandemic levels.- Pandemic stress-tested school governance, revealing many flaws
The decline equates to about one third of a year’s worth of learning, and it was worse among students whose districts started the year with fully remote instruction.
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