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New study charts learning declines among students due to pandemic By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmedia.com
City Center milestone
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Dignitaries, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Mayor Troy Brumbalow at center, mark completion of the building phase of Cumming’s City Center June 24. The event provided visitors a tour of the 75-acre complex that has taken almost three years to complete. See story, Page 5.
County hears plan for baseball complex
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Softball Nationals set for area parks
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OPINION
Barn for books preserves history
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ATLANTA — Younger students may have been less vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus, but they were hit hard academically, according to a recent Georgia State University report. The study, conducted by the Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education, reviewed data from three area school districts, including Fulton County Schools, to measure student achievement in math and reading over the course of the two-year-long pandemic. MAPLE has been collecting this data from the three districts since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. It released its first findings in spring 2021 which looked at data in the first year of the pandemic. The recent update states, “Student Achievement Growth During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” found many students have begun to recover academically in the second year of the
See REPORT, Page 13