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Some Idaho schools struggled to graduate seniors during pandemic-forced closures
Nik Streng, IdahoEdNews.org
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The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to Idaho’s improved 2020
high school graduation rate because some requirements were waived when buildings closed and learning moved online.
But improved rates were not universal. For 83 of Idaho’s more than 200 high schools, the graduation rate dropped from the prior year.
Idaho’s overall graduation-rate increased from 80.7 percent to 82.1 percent
a jump of 1.4 percentage points, the highest in five years. The pandemic forced schools to shut their doors in April, about two months before graduation. Much of the required