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Podcast: Rising from the Ashes
Episode: KNX In Depth: Math and reading scores plummet because of pandemic school closures--California's ambitious climate change bills--Police secretly using obscure online tool to track people--Twitter testing "edit" function
Description: When the pandemic hit, schools across the country shut down and students went into remote learning. Some people at the time criticized the lengthy closures, saying it would hurt the kids academically. Now a new federal study shows math and reading scores for 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two years of the pandemic. We go In Depth into how far they dropped. We know the pandemic hit adults hard too. A new survey shows just how hard it's impacted people's mental health locally and across California. State lawmakers pas...