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    Tutoring, a key learning recovery strategy, reaches fewer than 1 in 10 LA students

    by Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times Mar 30, 2022 4 minutes
    Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho visits a classroom at Fair Avenue Elementary School on Feb. 17, 2022, in North Hollywood, California.

    LOS ANGELES — Tutoring, considered a cornerstone to academic recovery from the pandemic, has reached fewer than 1 in 10 Los Angeles students, a sign of continuing challenges in efforts to help students in the nation's second-largest school system.

    The latest data, presented to the Board of Education on Tuesday, show that a higher percentage of students in elementary school receive tutoring. In grades 1 through 5, tutors work with about 11% of students.

    In middle and high schools the numbers who have worked with tutors drop substantially, ranging from about 4% to about 6%, depending on the grade. In all, about 36,368 students have worked with tutors. The presentation did not provide information about when the tutoring took

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