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The ELL Whiplash: Florida's English Learner Gap Closed During COVID — Then Reopened
When Florida waived its standardized assessment requirements for graduation during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years, the graduation gap between English language learners and all students collapsed...
Only 1 of 73 Florida Districts Has Recovered to Pre-COVID Attendance Levels
Of the 73 Florida school districts with chronic absenteeism data spanning both sides of the pandemic, exactly one has returned to where it was before COVID shut everything down.
Nearly 9 in 10 Florida Districts Lost Students in 2026
In a typical year before the pandemic, roughly one in three Florida school districts lost students. In 2021, COVID pushed that figure above 90%. That breadth was supposed to be a crisis-year anomaly.