At least 10 elementary and high schools in the Minneapolis Public School District and St. Paul Public School District in Minnesota, did not have a single student meet grade level expectations in math during the 2021-2022 school year, according to a Wednesday report by the Center of the American Experiment, an organization focused on state public policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Statewide, 19 school districts did not have one student test proficient in math on the 2022 Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment<\/a>, a standardized test used to determine what students have learned, according to a Center of the American Experiment report<\/a>. Of elementary schools in the Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts, seven did not have a single student meeting grade-level expectations in math<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs of the start of the 2022 school year, fewer than half of Minnesota students statewide are proficient in math (44.6 percent), and just under 50 percent can\u2019t read at grade level,\u201d Catrin Wigfall, the author of the report, wrote. \u201cOn national assessments, Minnesota reading and math scores are the lowest they have been in 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of the 19 schools, six were traditional public schools, two were online public schools and 11 were public charter schools, the report stated. No students were proficient in reading at one of the traditional public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDefenders of the current system will likely point to COVID as the driving reason, and while school closures certainly exacerbated learning loss, poor and declining student achievement showed itself way before the pandemic,\u201d Wigfall wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n