Most U.S. students are recovering from pandemic-era setbacks, but millions are making up little ground

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : States have used some money from the historic $190 billion in federal pandemic relief to help students catch up, but that money runs out later this year.
58% : Lisa Coons, Virginia's superintendent of public instruction, said last year's state test scores were a wake-up call.
56% : Chicago officials credit the improvement to changes made possible with nearly $3 billion in federal relief.
49% : "The recovery is not finished, and it won't be finished without state action," said Thomas Kane, a Harvard economist behind the scorecard.
48% : "States need to start planning for what they're going to do when the federal money runs out in September.
47% : Supreme Court reverses new trial for man once on death row in art gallery owner's killing MORE: Search begins for new Lincoln Intermediate Unit executive director Nationally, students made up one-third of their pandemic losses in math during the past school year and one-quarter of the losses in reading, according to the Education Recovery Scorecard, an analysis of state and national test scores by researchers at Harvard and Stanford.
37% : Funding public education does make a difference.

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