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America’s children, including youngsters in Alabama, have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of an exam known as the nation’s report card. However, the Yellowhammer State is among the top areas in the country where 4th grade math scores are improving.

While the rest of the country's schools were losing ground in math during the COVID pandemic, student performance in a rural Alabama school district was soaring. Piedmont City schools notched significant improvement in math, landing in the top spot among school districts across the country in a comparison of scores from before and during the pandemic.

A nonprofit organization in Alabama has some tough news about kids in Alabama.VOICES for Alabama’s Children has released its annual Kids Count Data Book,…