As educators throughout Texas prepare for the upcoming school year in a post-pandemic setting, administrators are devising plans to address learning losses spurred by remote instruction â losses that the Texas Education Agency said were clearly evident in studentsâ 2021 standardized testing results. In late June, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath had revealed that in-person learnersâ 2021 testing results during the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams this past spring were âappreciably higherâ than their peers enrolled under remote instruction. TEA officials observed four key changes: the number of students not meeting grade level expectations increased from 2019, mathematics saw the sharpest decline in student proficiency, districts with higher percentages of virtual learners experienced greater declines and districts with higher percentages of in-person learners avoided most declines.