When COVID-19 shuttered virtually everything in 2020 and forced public schools to begin distance learning, those schools responded with the agility one would expect from a decrepit battleship forced to make a quick change of course in the face of an unexpected enemy.
In other words, the state's hulking K-12 system barely responded at all, even as small and nimble private and charter schools quickly adapted to the new reality.
We heard rumblings of a "Parent revolt," which manifested itself in some high-profile school board elections.
Booting bad school board members is a start, but there are so many obstacles to improving matters at the classroom level.
"The change in the delivery of education left many already-underserved students functionally unable to attend school," they noted in their complaint.
At the behest of teachers' unions, they restricted the growth of charter schools.
How much more evidence do we need? California's poorly served public school students need more than a few more dollars diverted to tutoring programs.
https://reason.com/2024/03/01/more-evidence-that-covid-school-closures-wrecked-student-performance/
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