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Dallas students suffered ‘horrifying’ learning loss during pandemic, new data suggests https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2020/11/05/dallas-students-suffered-horrifying-learning-loss-during-pandemic-new-tests-suggests/

Dallas students suffered ‘horrifying’ learning loss during pandemic, new data suggests

The pandemic has caused deep, “horrifying” learning losses for Dallas children, and underscored the disparities among Black students, according to new DISD...

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2020/11/05/dallas-students-suffered-horrifying-learning-loss-during-pandemic-new-tests-suggests/

Today @dallasschools released data about the disparate impacts of COVID on communities of color specifically, Black and Brown students with Black students being the most impacted. (Thread below)

I am doing research on the history of Black schools in Dallas and close analysis of their inception, leaders and stories. This article I found in Dallas news today about the flu of 1959 is timely with the news of 2020, COVID and schools.

Headline: flu keeping pupils out of school.

Here is the devastating part.

Schools with percentage of absences of 20% or higher had to report numbers to the district. Of the eight schools that reported numbers of 20% or higher, SIX were Black. 6/8 schools impacted by this flu were BLACK. Now fast forward to 2020. @dallasschools

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