That disastrous impact translated into the reality that Virginia, the commonwealth of Virginia, the cradle of democracy, had the lowest definition of proficiency in the nation. Parents were pushed out of their children's education. We had some of the lowest in person learning time in the country. We were one of the last states to get our schools fully back open. We had this giant honesty gap between what the state was telling students, how they were performing and the reality of how they were performing. (09:16–09:21)
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Asserts that Virginia had one of the lowest amounts of in-person learning time during the pandemic.
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