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Say what you will about the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board, but it’s hard to argue they’re lazy or timid. They’ve committed to a schedule of reviewing data on academic goals, they're deep in superintendent candidate interviews and they’re trying to persuade county commissioners and voters to approve a record-smashing total for school bonds.
Oakdale Elementary students returned to in-person classes for the second time in mid-February. In the first semester of last school year, 3% of Oakdale Elementary School’s third-graders got a D or F in reading. That was before the pandemic. This year, with a fluctuating mix of remote and in-person classes, 69% of Oakdale’s third-graders fell below a C. That’s one of the more extreme swings, but data on classroom grades provided by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools shows many schools have taken dramatic hits on measures of academic performance during the pandemic. Almost always, they’re sc...