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Ever since the Browns established a partnership with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District in 2015, Dee Haslam and the Cleveland Browns Foundation have prioritized eliminating chronic student absenteeism across Northeast Ohio.
One of the campaigns meant to focus solely on addressing student absenteeism is the Get 2 School, Stay in the Game! Network. Established in 2019 to improve the attendance rates across 14 school districts which has since expanded to 16 districts the initiative aims to break down several of the barriers that could keep students from regularly attending class.
Haslam has always been one of the leading spokespeople for those efforts, and she took the mic again Thursday at the Power of Sports Summit at Progressive Field to remark on the progress the initiative has made.
Black students are faring far worse during the pandemic than others, new test data out of Ohio show, with COVID-19’s disruptions setting them back as much as a half year’s worth of learning and widening longstanding racial achievement gaps.
The results of Ohio’s fall 2020 third grade reading tests offer a dire warning on the damage the pandemic could inflict on students across the country, particularly minority students.
“We are seeing existing inequalities grow before our eyes,” said Ohio State University professor Vladimir Kogan, who estimated that students across Ohio have lost a third of a year of learning on average, while Black students have lost half a year. “I think it calls for us as a state to respond.”