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Florida students still way behind on math skills in COVID’s wake

Pandemic upended all facets of education. Academically, math took the biggest hit.

Meadowbrook Middle School math teacher Jacqueline Russell teaches her sixth-grade class in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. Russel is a finalist in the Orange County Public School’s Teacher of the Year competition. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel)
Meadowbrook Middle School math teacher Jacqueline Russell teaches her sixth-grade class in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. Russel is a finalist in the Orange County Public School’s Teacher of the Year competition. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel)
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Florida public school students lost the equivalent of nearly six months' worth of math skills because of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say, a deficit that four years later still plays out in Central Florida classrooms.

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