A panel that met Thursday to discuss pandemic learning loss and potential solutions generally agreed that while COVID-19 caused a decline in education outcomes, Utah can’t treat the learning loss as purely a pandemic issue.
on the Utah Board of Education, agreed the state needs to adapt to a changing student population.
, R-South Jordan. Pulsipher is co-chair of the Legislature’s Public Education Appropriations Committee.Schools nationwide shifted to remote learning in the spring of 2020 and remained closed or partially closed with some online coursework through the remainder of that school year. Math saw the largest drop in 2021 and the largest gain back in 2022, though it was still 3.7 percentage points below 2019 rates.
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