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  • School officials grapple with 'learning gap'

    Brayden Zenker, NDNAEF|Mar 15, 2021

    BISMARCK – As the coronavirus pandemic continues across the country and the world, Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler, is looking for ways to address a student learning gap blamed on the virus and schools’ attempts to contain it. On Feb. 18, in testimony before the House Appropriations Committee’s Education and Environment Division, Baesler outlined the scale of that gap and potential ways to address it. She reported that 27-28% of students who had tested at grade level in 2019 for reading, writing and math fell below grade...