Some schools have had to shut their doors. Government funding is very often tied to enrolment numbers. In many rural areas, the public school is the main employer in town. It can be extremely expensive to stay open for some of these smaller schools. One chicago school has only 65 students, but still needs forty thousand dollars per student just to offer the bare minimum. Another notable shift is the increase in home schooling among black families compared to other groups.
The political gap between Florida and New York widens as Gov. DeSantis suspends a “soft-on-crime” state attorney, while new study reveals the troubling reality of New York’s lenient crime policies, and public school enrollment has plummeted post-pandemic. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.