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Michigan students lost ground during COVID. This is what an education nonprofit says will close the gap
DATE: January 10, 2023
Katharine Strunk, the director of the Michigan State University Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, said the group’s assessment of how students are doing matches what her group has found.
Student achievement growth “was much slower than we would assume in a typical pre-pandemic school year, and it was substantially different for low-income versus higher-income students, for Black and Latino students relative to white and Asian students, for students who are in districts that were operating majority remotely versus the school districts that were operating mostly in person during the 2021 school year,” she said. “Every single state has found the same thing.”
And, though the legislature has gone a long way toward creating a fairer school funding system, she said, “it still has a ways to go.
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