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Midpeninsula students standardized test scores were all over the map, shedding light on how schools and students are performing post-COVID, according to California Department of Education data released last week.

“The state of the schools is good,” Hermosa Beach School Board President Maggie Bove-LaMonica declared at the start of her State of the Schools address.

It’s no surprise that educational achievement suffered after two chaotic years of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s still distressing to see the desolate picture of students’ academics

From the editorial:

It’s clear that a multi-pronged approach to boosting student performance will be necessary, but state and local educators and policymakers should ensure that decisions about how to allocate resources are driven by data and other evidence.

Education officials are calling the first state test scores released since the pandemic a new “baseline” for assessing student learning. Scores in math, English language arts, and science were released

Student test scores released by the California Department of Education this week show statewide declines in English and Math since pre-pandemic days. But one county in far Northern California is still scoring as well as it did before COVID.

State and national data released earlier this week show lower test scores among students. It’s being attributed to the challenges many families faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Raising signs, banners and their voices, hundreds of people rallied outside the Twin Rivers United School District office Tuesday to call for better pay and more support for their students.

The latest national proficiency test scores offer a desolate picture of students’ academic achievement, showing that we need immediate action to fix the learning loss. But there are pockets of hope, among them reading scores for LAUSD eighth-graders.