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The ELL Whiplash: Florida's English Learner Gap Closed During COVID — Then Reopened
Correction (2026-07-23): An earlier version of this article said 15 districts had ELL graduation gaps exceeding 15 percentage points. The correct count is 17; the earlier figure came from a top-15 dis...
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.