One in three U.S. students attended a racially, and often socioeconomically, segregated school in 2020-21, creating inequitable learning environments and outcomes.
Black students with disabilities more often receive "stigmatizing classifications" such as developmental delay but their parents have more difficulty accessing special support.
"With virtual learning, when students open up their academic menu, how awesome is that now that they have options? I can take it face-to-face, I can take it hybrid, or I can take it virtually."
A full academic rebound will require above-average growth–and for some students, well above average–if educators hope to close achievement gaps as schools bounce back from the pandemic.
Six months after the Neenah Joint School District's proposed property tax increase referendum failed, Superintendent Mary Pfeiffer went back to the public with "a better plan."
The stats contributing to teacher shortages are glaring: the average teacher salary is so low in 38 states that even some mid-career educators qualify for government benefits based on income.
Black and Hispanic students receive 4% less funding than students of all other races and ethnicities. States often correct inequities in "funding progressivity" created by local property taxes.
