{"id":1589132,"date":"2022-08-04T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589132"},"modified":"2022-08-04T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T17:32:19","slug":"up-to-20000-students-missing-from-la-unified-enrollment-rosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/up-to-20000-students-missing-from-la-unified-enrollment-rosters\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 20,000 Students Missing From LA Unified Enrollment Rosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fup-to-20000-students-missing-from-la-unified-enrollment-rosters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589132&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Between 10,000 and 20,000 students are missing from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) enrollment rosters\u2014just two weeks before the start of the 2022\u201323 school year.<\/p>\n<p>District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said last week at a press conference the number of students unaccounted for is likely due to obstacles that block them from attending school, such as a lack of transportation, an LAUSD spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>To re-engage students, Carvalho said he reached out to about 50 chronically-absent students along with his senior staff, cabinet, and Board of Education, after\u00a0LAUSD officials estimated in April\u00a0there was about 46 percent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/rate-of-chronically-absent-la-unified-students-doubled-in-the-past-year_4399373.html\">chronically absent students<\/a>\u2014or students who missed more than 9 percent of classes\u2014in the district.<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent said some of the students he reached out to told him their siblings were not in attendance at school for much of last year too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome revealed that they themselves were caring for their younger siblings and that they themselves were working one, two jobs,\u201d Carvalho said. \u201cAnd they told me of many other kids who are in the same condition. That\u2019s just not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In April, Carvalho said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/la-unified-enrollment-to-drop-30-percent-by-2031_4477518.html\">planned to launch<\/a> a program next school year that would create a team of counselors tasked with preventing chronic absenteeism.<\/p>\n<p>He said he also planned to work with LA County to connect families to food, housing, legal support, and transportation, as well as social services such as therapy, grief counseling, and substance abuse treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The district\u2019s chronic absenteeism last year was also likely exacerbated by its strict COVID-19 protocols, which included a mask mandate for all students and staff, weekly testing for unvaccinated students, which required asymptomatic students in close contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case to quarantine at home for 5 to 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the district loosens up most of its previous pandemic restrictions. While students and staff must take a COVID-19 test before returning to campus, weekly asymptomatic testing is no longer required. At-home quarantines for close contacts without symptoms is not required, and masking is \u201cstrongly recommended\u201d but not required, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LASchools\/status\/1554591140204011520\">an update<\/a> released by the district Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason for the missing enrolled students was that many parents are choosing to enroll their students elsewhere or choosing to homeschool without notifying the LAUSD of their decision, Carvalho said at a July 24 press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents are taking their time to file the documents,\u201d Carvalho said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the number of California families filing homeschool affidavits rose from 15,000 to 35,000\u2014though that number fell last year to about 25,000 as schools reopen.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the district faces a looming enrollment crisis. Student enrollment in LAUSD has been falling at a rate of about 2.8 percent per year since it hit its enrollment peak with 737,000 students in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>However, a May 17 Board of Education report predicted that after 2022, the district\u2019s enrollment will begin to decrease by 3.6 percent annually\u2014dropping 30 percent from about 437,000 in 2022 to 309,000 by 2031 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laschoolboard.org\/sites\/default\/files\/COW%20Budget%20Workshop%205-17-22_Revised.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-micaela-ricaforte\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 10,000 and 20,000 students are missing from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) enrollment rosters\u2014just two weeks before the start of the 2022\u201323 school year.District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}