Public Schools Begin Closing After Losing Nearly 2 Million Students During...

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Public School Districts Begin Closing Schools After Losing Nearly 2 Million Students During The Pandemic

January 7, 2023



Don't blame the pandemic.
Isn't this the same behavior expected in our public schools?

Between 2020 and 2021, almost 2 million students stop attending public schools. Charter school enrollment rose during this time. In a recent poll from Education Next, district-operated schools lost 4  percent of their students during those two years, with those children  enrolling in other types of schooling. In the spring of 2020, 81 percent of schoolchildren in the United  States were enrolled in district schools, according to parental response  to the poll.  By November of that year, enrollment in district schools had plummeted to 72 percent, according to Education Next numbers. This has caused some school districts to shut down some of their schools. Public schools in the U.S. have lost more than a million students  since the start of the pandemic, prompting some districts across the  country to close buildings because they don't have enough pupils or  funding to keep them open.

Could safety be the real reason parents take their kids out of public schools?

The school board in Jefferson County, Colo., outside Denver, voted to close 16 schools. St. Paul, Minn., last summer closed five  schools. The Oakland, Calif., school board last February voted to close seven schools after years of declining enrolment and financial strife. Declining birth-rates, a rise in home schooling and growing competition from private and charter schools are contributing to the decline in traditional public school enrolment Districts in cities including Denver and Indianapolis have developed  plans to shut down underused schools...

Public School Districts Begin Closing Schools After Losing Nearly 2 Million Students During The Pandemic
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/public-school-districts-begin-closing-schools-almost-2-million-students-left-pandemic

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And to show you that they don't read - the monument they defaced was to negro soldiers!