OPINION: 'While activists were busy scoring political wins, students were suffering huge losses where it counted most: the quality of their education,' writes Tucsonan Julie Doll.
It’s been a rough few years for public education, primarily because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
People are also reading… Faculty and staff at many schools and universities across the nation used the pandemic to leverage other issues. Several went on strike or threatened strikes to win bigger pay increases and other benefits. Test scores fell substantially. Fourth graders math scores dropped 7 percentage points, and reading scores dropped 5 points, according to a piece in the Washington Post. The drop between early 2020 and early 2022, according to the story, was the largest in 30 years.School is important. And public schools — from preschools to research universities — are vital to the nation’s continued growth and progress.
As the nation progressed — largely through educations provided by public schools — the benefits of universal education became apparent.
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