California Children Struggling to Recover From Pandemic Academically, Mentally: Report

First grade students prepare for class at St. Joseph Catholic School in La Puente, Calif., on Nov. 16, 2020. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

California children are still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic both academically and mentally, according to a recent report from research organization Children Now.

“Children in California ... have not bounced back from the pandemic,” Children Now President Ted Lempert said in a Jan. 26 statement. “Too many kids are not thriving today and were not thriving before the pandemic.”