School reopening fail: Is Santa Clara Cnty the worst performing county in the worst performing state?

John Woolfolk at the San Jose Mercury parses data from Burbio and finds that California is at the bottom of U.S. states in terms of school reopening. Concurrently, as sfgate.com points out nearby, more than 95% of local county public schools remain shuttered.

The analysis...shows California 49th among the 50 states in the proportion of students offered in-person instruction. "California is way behind the rest of the country," said Burbio co-founder Dennis Roche.

Burbio's team audits districts in all 50 states--representing more than 35,000 schools--and updates the data every 72 hours with changes. It compiles the information into an index of 0-100 for each state reflecting the proportion of students offered in-person instruction--0 for online only, 50 for hybrid of online and in-person instruction and 100 for traditional in-person instruction five days a week.

California's index score of 11.1 was ahead of only Maryland's 9.8 and comparable only to Oregon at 12.8 and Washington at 19.2.

Among other large, populous states with large cities and diverse populations and economies, the index was 90.8 for Texas, 99.9 for Florida, 49.4 for Pennsylvania, 49 for New York, and 37.6 for Illinois.

Read the whole thing here.

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