By Howard Blume | Los Angeles Times
Most California students continue to struggle from pandemic learning setbacks and do not meet grade-level standards in math and reading, new state test scores show, with incremental gains in math but largely flat or slightly declining results in English.
While education officials could find data points that gave them hope, scores are at levels comparable to when the current testing system began in 2015 as school districts were still figuring out how to prepare for the annual examinations, given in grades three through eight and grade 11.
Overall, student scores declined slightly in reading — less than one percentage point — with 46.7% achieving state learning standards for their grade, compared with 47.1% the year before. This means more than half of students did not meet grade-level benchmarks when they were tested in spring 2023.
California State Superintendent of Education Tony Thurmond is running for Governor but will have a hard time explaining to voters why most students are failing on his watch.
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2UrbanGirls contributed to this report.
