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COVID-19 has not been kind to cursive-instruction efforts in the Charlotte area.
State-mandated cursive writing lessons were among the casualties of the pandemic in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools last year, a new state report says.
In 2013, the North Carolina General Assembly passed what was dubbed the Back to Basics law, requiring elementary schools to teach cursive writing and have students memorize multiplication tables. It was part of a nationwide pushback against Common Core standards.
Last school year, 83% of school districts and 87% of charter schools met the requirements for cursive lessons, according to a report being presented to the state Board of Education Wednesday. CMS and Union County Public Schools were among the minority that did not.