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Today, the Bidens visit a public school

in Washington, D.C

Today, the Bidens visit a public school in Washington, D.C., to welcome students back for another year — or, at least, those kids who actually show up. Nowhere is America’s current education crisis quite as acute as the District of Columbia. Now, in the aftermath of COVID and the subsequent Democrat-mandated lockdowns, the problem is getting so much worse:
* D.C. students have fallen behind by an average of five months in math and four months in reading — while minority students have fallen even farther behind.
o 19 percent of all students were proficient in math last year — down from 31 percent in 2019.
o 31 percent of all students were proficient in reading and writing last year — down from 37 percent in 2019.
o The decline in test scores was most evident among Black and Hispanic/Latino students.
* Almost half of ALL students are “chronically absent,” or absent for more than 10 percent of the entire school year — up from 29 percent three years ago.
* More than one-third of all students reported feeling “sad or hopeless” last year.
* The estimate percentage of ninth graders who will earn a college degree within six years of high school graduating has plummeted to just eight percent.
Meanwhile, Republicans have a solution — expanding Washington, D.C.’s highly successful “opportunity scholarship” program. Over the past two decades, tens of thousands of District students — primarily from low-income neighborhoods — have received scholarships to attend private schools — and it works. Nearly 90 percent of scholarship recipients graduated high school.
As students continue to reel from the pandemic’s effects, it’s no secret how we got here.
Democrats did this and they’re hoping Americans forget. They won’t.
President Biden visits D.C. middle school to mark the start of classes
   The president was joined by first lady Jill Biden, a longtime English professor, at Eliot-Hine Middle School
   President Biden and first lady Jill Biden greet students at Eliot-Hine Middle School in Washington on Monday. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
    “Oh, my God, it’s really you!” shouted a student at Eliot-Hine Middle School in Northeast Washington, where President Biden stopped by Monday to mark the new school year. There was so much squealing and excitement that one staffer marveled, “This is like the Beatles.”
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   Biden, accompanied by first lady Jill Biden, first visited the lunchroom — where a big banner touted the school’s valued traits of “excellence, responsibility, integrity and communications.” Then they dropped by an eighth-grade math class at the 300-student campus.
   In the classroom, decorated with colorful posters that displayed math symbols and the order of operations, one student proclaimed loudly, “Joe Biden!” The president hugged one excited child and talked about whether she could someday become president.
“The hardest thing is to come back after three months of not doing any work, not doing any homework,” Biden told the students. Their teacher, Heather Thomas, explained that the class would spend the day reviewing concepts from last school year to see what everyone remembered.
　