Gary Hollands, Portland Public Schools board chair and Herman Greene, Portland Public Schools vice board chair chat with student Amara Howe-Sadruddin. Greene and Hollands have both focused on improving academic skills and scores for students of color, but new testing data suggests that a disjointed school year took a toll this year, especially on math learning. More data is needed to give a fuller picture of student learning, district officials say.Beth Nakamura
The first data points on how the strike- and storm-disrupted 2023-24 school year may have impacted academic progress at Portland Public Schools are in, and they are discouraging.
Results from the Measurement of Academic Progress, or MAP, math tests show that just 49% of the district’s students made the expected learning gains over the first six months of the current school year.
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