Why California Should Look to Pentagon’s Schools to Improve Lagging Academic Skills

California’s kids continue to display subpar skills in English language arts and mathematics – fewer than half meeting standards in the former and scarcely a third in the latter, with fractional gains at best.

As usual, the state’s educational establishment tried to put a positive spin on the results while blaming the pandemic for any deficiencies.

“These results suggest that California’s public schools are beginning to turn the corner on pandemic recovery, with gains on most assessments and a substantial reduction in chronic absenteeism, especially for our most vulnerable groups of students,” Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the state school board, said in a statement.

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