The pandemic reversed academic gains metro Atlanta students were making, according to a new report from education non-profit Learn4Life.
“There are sort of two big takeaways,” said Learn4Life executive director Ken Zeff while speaking about the data at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Thursday. “One is we were making a little bit of progress that got erased by the pandemic. [The] second, and maybe even more substantial takeaway is, we weren’t doing very well before the pandemic.”
The report showed in 2019, about 40% of metro Atlanta third graders were reading on grade level. In spring 2022, 39% of third graders reached that benchmark.
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