Washington Examiner Federal, state, and local governments made a lot of mistakes while trying to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. But the most damaging error appears to be their decision to shut down public schools and move to remote, instead of in-person, learning. Now that they are trying to clean up the mess they made, the Biden administration wants to repeat the same mistakes all over again.
While defending her union’s campaign to prevent union members from having to return to the classroom, United Teachers of Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz famously told reporters, “There is no such thing as learning loss.” Everyone outside the Democratic Party knew this was false when she said it, but now there is hard data rejecting her claim that no one can deny.
According to multiple studies, students from schools that stayed remote into 2020 lost an average of half a school year’s worth of learning. Those students denied in-person teaching the longest, as in Myart-Cruz’s Los Angeles school district, fell the furthest behind…
