During the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Education put CSI and other support and improvement statuses mostly on pause.
“The pandemic wreaked havoc on assessment systems,” education groups and civil rights organizations told Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona in an August 2021 letter.
Identification has since resumed, and more schools are being put on improvement plans.
Currently, about 2.5 million students attend K-12 public schools that have been identified for CSI, per GAO.