KHOU's Jeremy Rogalski reports:
"School failure rates at some Houston-area districts doubled or even tripled during the COVID-19 pandemic, a KHOU 11analysisof school data has found.
Across the 10 largest local school districts, 19 percent of middle and high school students failed at least one class in fall 2019. In the fall 2020 semester, the failure rate shot for secondary students rose to 32 percent...
A KHOU 11 analysis found low-income students did fail at a higher rate than their peers in fall 2020, but the gap was similar to fall 2019.
Overall, both virtual and in-person students failed at a higher rate than the year before. But virtual learners struggled more with 37 percent failing at least one class, outpacing in-person students’ failure rate of 27 percent."
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