The drop off in school attendance since the beginning of the pandemic is country wide, even as school’s have reopened across the country…
The virus has sped up migration of families with children from big cities it would seem….
Enrollment in New York City’s public school system has dropped by about 50,000 students since the fall of 2019, the Department of Education said on Friday, the latest example of the profound disruption the pandemic has had on public education across the country.
The 4.5 percent drop was likely driven by a number of factors, including parents choosing to home-school their children either temporarily or long-term, families leaving the city during the pandemic and some parents delaying the start of school for their young children altogether.
New York City lost by far the largest number of students in recent history between the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2020, when about 38,000 students left the system.
But between fall of 2020 and now, enrollment fell by about 13,000 students, or roughly 1 percent, a rate that mirrors prepandemic drops in 2018 and 2019.
Los Angeles and Chicago, home to the biggest districts in the United States after New York, lost a larger percentage of students this year.
There are currently just over 1 million children enrolled in all of New York City’s public schools, including charter schools. About 938,000 of those students are enrolled in traditional district schools, according to preliminary data from the Department of Education.
Though New York is home to by far the largest school district in the country, enrollment has been steadily declining for years, prompted in part by families leaving the city in search of more affordable housing…
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School districts across the country have been grappling with enrollment drops worsened by the pandemic’s profound effect on public education. A recent New York Times analysis found that about 340,000 kindergarten students nationwide did not show up to virtual or in-person classes during the pandemic.
Isn’t it amazing that around 10,000 Americans a week are dying from Covid and it’s treated essentially as a mere statistic.
Remember when 4 Americans died at Benghazi and there was a Congressional investigation of months long duration.
Republican Senator Rand Paul does want an investigation of Dr. Fauci involvement on experiments with beagles.
It’s how the media plays things i feel
And American’s tend to get tired of things and in this case want to keep moving back to a normalcy of some sort…..
Higher consumer prices also touch EVERYBODY
Rand Paul specializes in LASIK procedures, cataracts and glaucoma – which is why he is such a medical authority on Covid-19 among Republicans.