'COVID slide' having real effects on WCSD students
'COVID slide' having real effects on WCSD students | Adrienne Santiago Adrienne Santiago This opinion column was submitted by Adrienne Santiago, executive director of the Northern Nevada Literacy Council. Does Nevada’s trajectory of rising graduation rates fall at the hands of a national pandemic? For the past nine years, before the pandemic, Nevada’s graduation rates had been steadily rising an average of 2.9% points each year, getting us from a 70.3% graduation rate in 2010 to an 84% graduation rate in 2019. That is, until our Nevada youth encountered the “COVID-19 slide,” dropping...