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A new study found that California schools got positive results from a targeted investment in the science of reading — even with the challenges of pandemic recovery.

An estimated 240,000 students are considered “missing” from public school. Pandemic-era online classes made learning hard, but ongoing challenges led some students out of the system completely.

As the pandemic took hold, more than 1 million children did not enroll in local schools. Many of them were the most vulnerable: 5-year-olds in low-income neighborhoods