Law Office of Grace Clark

It’s worth putting time and energy into creating a distance learning plan that works for your child because we might be here for much longer than we thought.

I had the pleasure of chatting with CCUSD’s Director of Special Education Dr. Diana Fannon, and special education advocate Dr. Sarah Pelangka of Know IEPs?, in a panel discussion hosted by Special X. We talked all about special education in the time of Covid-19, distance learning, and amending IEPs. Check it out!

This is an interesting look at the long term economic impacts of learning loss. The typical current student might expect something on the order of 3% lower career earnings if schools immediately returned to 2019 performance levels. Disadvantaged students will almost certainly see larger impacts. And, with the forecast of further disruptions in normal school operations, the costs only grow. For nations, the impact could optimistically be 1.5% lower GDP throughout the remainder of the century and proportionately even lower if education systems are slow to return to prior levels of performance. These losses will be permanent unless the schools return to better performance levels than those in 2019