“It is very easy with hindsight to say, ‘Oh, learning loss, we should have opened.’ People forget how many people died,” said Austin Beutner, former superintendent in Los Angeles, where students were online from mid-March 2020 until the start of hybrid instruction in April 2021.
Online school put U.S. kids behind; some adults have regrets
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Beutner said his three years at the head of the 600,000-student district was “the most rewarding job I've held during my nearly 40-year career."
LA schools superintendent stepping down as classrooms reopen
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