The state assessments reflect sizable drops in performance compared with the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, when large numbers of students were already struggling to meet grade-level expectations.⁠ ⁠ The test results are even more devastating for Black, Latino, low-income and other historically underserved students — 84% of Black students and 79% of Latino and low-income students did not meet state math standards in 2022.⁠ ⁠ The scores have also amplified the troubling fact that even before the pandemic, 60% of California’s students were testing below grade level in math and nearly half in English.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in bio.⁠ 📷️: @francineorr