Louisiana School 'F' Report Card

Students are still recovering from the massive learning loss suffered during the Covid-19 pandemic. But comparing Louisiana students' current academic performance to pre-pandemic levels is very difficult because the state fails to provide crucial data. That’s according to a new report by the Center on Reinventing Public Education. The Times-Picayune | Baton Rouge Advocate’s Elyse Carmosino explains why the nonpartisan education group gave Louisiana an ‘F’ for its online school report card: On Louisiana’s school report card website, [Morgan] Polikoff said that researchers could not find any data for student achievement growth in math and English, chronic absenteeism or English learner proficiency and growth. The report cards did include pre-COVID data on other indicators — graduation rates and math, English, science and social studies test scores — but it was hard to find, the researchers said. Polikoff also said the state’s report card website is confusing and difficult to navigate. “It’s not very easy to toggle from year to year, which makes comparisons across years much harder,” he said.