California schools begin to cancel the conduction, to strengthen reading

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The good news is rare in the large -scale system of public schools in California, which aims to train nearly 6 million students, but is fighting to improve the chronic setting on the levels of academic achievements of state and federal tests.

The most new circle of Ratings “more intelligent balanced” A partial improvement is shown at best, with less than half of all students meeting or exceeding state standards in English skills, and only one-third do it in mathematics. Meanwhile California continues to do poorly compared to other states in the tests applied by National Educational Progress assessmentS

We recently received some positive news about schools in California. After decades of what was called “reading of wars”, the political institution in California is Finally by perceiving phonikaProven technique for teaching children to read, which can enhance the low results of state reading. This is a small miracle that pushes years of modern reading instructions that have failed.

Another miracle can happen and: California is making progress at its extremely high levels of chronic absences.

A few years ago, after the Covid-19 pandemic, Almost a third of enrolled children In public schools, the classes were chronically absent. You cannot learn if you are not in class and absences have negatively affected the overall academic achievements, the future of millions of children and the need of the state for trained or training workers, as those in the huge generation of a baby boom withdraw from the workforce.

Chronic absences also adversely affect the finances of local school systems, as state aid is calculated in attendance, not just for enrollment. Schools with high absences are also inclined to have low levels of training and lose the money they need to increase achievement.

California was not alone, of course. However, this maintained its public schools closed longer than most In other countries and improvised online hours, they were a bad replacement for classroom training.

Children from low-income families whose parents could not work from home to monitor their participation or to afford private education suffered the most from the closure of schools. Governor Gavin Newo and the state’s education were responsible for their unnecessary extension.

Of 30% chronic absences in 2021-22. California dropped to 25% in 2022-23 and 20% in 2023-24, according to a A new state report on absences from Schoolstatus, a company that provides consulting services to school systems. The drop to 18% in California in the last two years has been the third most in the country, surveyed by Schoolstatus, behind only Nevada and New Mexico. On a national scale, the decline was only 6%.

The report reinforces what Tony ThurmondThe state chief of schools and a candidate for 2026 as governor, welcomed last week.

“Due to historical investments in the support of students and family commitment, California has Cut levels of chronic absences of TK-12 with one-thirdFrom 30% in 2022 to 20% in 2024, said Turmond. “We are on the road and are committed to reducing the chronic absence by 50 percent in five years.”

The Schoolstatus report had one warning: that the reduction of absences is relatively easy in elementary classes, but it becomes progressively more difficult in secondary school and especially among high school students.

“The deterioration of students’ attendance is accelerated systematically by the transition of high school onwards,” the researchers noted. “Chronic percentage more than twice from 5th grade (14.22%) to 12th grade (32.13%).” They called for “purposeful intervention when the areas follow indicators of early warning such as a partial day of absences, models of delay and the degree of response to family communication during these critical transitional years.”

Prolonged progress will depend on keeping the children in danger of dropping out of high school in class and learning what they need to survive in a competitive world.

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