The Golden State’s newly released assessment test scores show that across both the Bay Area and the state, students’ performance is still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels. It’s been two years since California’s students returned to the classroom. But the Golden State’s newly released assessment test scores show that across both the Bay Area and the state, students’ performance is still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels — and the most vulnerable students continue to show the steepest losses.
“We need to see students in the Bay Area growing by leaps and bounds — not increments and fractions,” said Christopher Nellum, the executive director of the Education Trust-West, an advocacy group focused on equity and education. Scores also varied widely by demographic. White students in the Bay Area were 2.5 times as likely to meet or exceed English standards than Black students, and nearly 3.5 times more likely to do the same with math.
On top of that, a nearly $8 billion grant from the state is funding pandemic learning recovery efforts until 2028.