Dallas Schools were on the rise, praised for progress and reform. And then the pandemic hit
COVID-19 is estimated to have erased a decade of academic gains in math and five years of progress in reading for districts across the state. In recent years, Dallas ISD had marked improvements particularly in the number of students enrolled in failing schools, but the district, which serves a large percentage of vulnerable students, has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. Leaders say they will throw every available resource at catching up struggling students, including the $700 million in federal coronavirus relief.