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Statistics show that 81.8 percent of students graduated in the last school year, a decrease of just over a half of a percentage point since the 2020-21 school year, the highest in a nine year period. Despite the small decline, there is hope that it won't be a long-term trend. Wyoming's graduation rate has been above 80 percent since the 2015-16 school year and has climbed several points in the past decade. However, it's lagged behind national rates.
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The Education Recovery Scorecard is a joint research effort between Harvard and Stanford universities to measure the educational progress that students was lost or gained during the pandemic. Twenty nine states and Washington, D.C. have been ranked. Future research will focus on the effects of other factors that may have played a role, such as infection rates and how long schools were closed to in-person learning.
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The State Senate continues working on a bill that would require schools to be accountable for student performance. Under the bill, each school in the…