The NewsThe federal Education Department released a new trove of data on Wednesday from the 2020-21 school year, the first full academic year during the coronavirus pandemic. It adds to the understanding of how the education system responded to Covid-19, and demonstrates how many schools struggled to handle the cascade of challenges. A Statistic That Sums It Up: 88 PercentThat’s the percentage of the country’s 97,600 public schools that operated in hybrid mode during the 2020-21 school year, with few students receiving a full year of in-person learning. The new statistics come from the Civil Rights Data Collection, a mandatory survey of all public schools in the United States that is administered by the Education Department and is typically conducted every other year. Because of pandemic delays, the last collection of data covered the 2017-18 school year.

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Organizations: federal Education Department, Civil, Education Department Locations: United States