{"id":571940,"date":"2021-06-23T15:07:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571940"},"modified":"2021-06-23T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:07:25","slug":"american-public-schools-lost-more-than-a-million-students-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-public-schools-lost-more-than-a-million-students-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"American Public Schools Lost More Than A Million Students Last Year"},"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\">22<\/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%2Famerican-public-schools-lost-more-than-a-million-students-last-year%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=571940&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232579590.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>More than a million students disappeared from public school rolls during the 2020-2021 school year according to a new report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/more-than-1-million-students-didnt-enroll-during-the-pandemic-will-they-come-back\/2021\/06\">from Education Week<\/a> that analyzed available state-collected data about schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s public school system lost almost 1.3 million students this year, according to an Education Week analysis of state data,\u201d the outlet reported Wednesday. \u201cThe loss was spread out across the nation, touching almost every demographic group and concentrated in lower grades. It will likely have academic, financial, and staffing repercussions for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The drop represents a 3% drop in enrollment across the board \u2014 and it could be larger. Education Week was only able to get information from 47 states. Delaware, Illinois, and North Carolina all have yet to report their enrollment data. Some of the data that Education Week received was, in the outlet\u2019s words, \u201cpreliminary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every state calculated, though, saw a dip in public school enrollment. \u2018The most severe enrollment losses occurred in Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, and Vermont, all of which lost more than 4.3 percent of its students,\u201d Education Week noted. \u00a0\u201cIn Maine, the number of students who were home-schooled alone or in learning pods, increased by 32 percent during the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It appears from the data that younger students \u2014 preschoolers, Kindergartners, and young elementary school students \u2014 were the most likely to drop off public school rolls, and lower-income students, both white and black, were disproportionately likely to have missed school.<\/p>\n<p>The report does not specify whether the students dropped out of school or whether some simply failed to enroll given the difficulty of having only virtual instruction during the pandemic \u2014 a situation that requires, in many cases, an internet connection and constant parental supervision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you already have pre-existing issues like poverty and the digital divide, and then you shut down the one place that is positioned to help close those gaps, you probably see that most districts have experienced an enrollment drop,\u201d Sharlonda Buckman, the assistant superintendent of Detroit Public Schools, told Education Week of the issue. \u201cMost of our children work best in a school building with their teachers with all of the assets that position them to do well in their schoolwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials are now likely to question whether the extended virtual instruction created a major problem for the American education system. In many of the nation\u2019s largest school districts, teachers\u2019 unions resisted a return to classrooms, claiming that in-person instruction risked their health and safety. Other districts, like Chicago Public Schools, saw their teachers\u2019 union try to use the pandemic as leverage for concessions.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic could end up costing public schools more than just students \u2014 it could cost districts millions in funding as they race to catch students who missed either part of or all of the 2020-2021 school district up to their peers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCatching students up academically also won\u2019t come cheap, according to administrators,\u201d Education Week said. \u201cStudents will need smaller classes to catch up and a plethora of mental health services after being holed up inside their homes for months at a time with little healthy social interaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a million students disappeared from public school rolls during the 2020-2021 school year according to a new report from Education Week that analyzed available state-collected data about schooling &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281128,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232579590.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"American Public Schools Lost More Than A Million Students Last Year","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232579590.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"American Public Schools Lost More Than A Million Students Last Year","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571940","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=571940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}