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Students at Lafayette Academy charter before it closed in 2024. (Photo by La’Shance Perry / The Lens)

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Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state’s third graders are still struggling from their Zoom-heavy start to reading.

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