Study Finds Public School Enrollment Declining in America’s Most Populous Cities
“Declining enrollment does not speak well to the level of confidence in large, urban-area public school systems”
Many people have become distrustful of public schools, particularly since the pandemic.
FOX News reports:
Public school enrollment declining in America’s most populous cities: Report
Public school enrollment is declining in America’s most populous cities, but despite the dip in attendance, school spending has increased in many urban districts, according to a report. Experts warn the disparity will have major implications for education policy.
Between 2013 and 2022, nationwide enrollment decreased by 2% from 49.9 million to 48.8 million, falling to some of the lowest points in decades, according to a report the Manhattan Institute published Thursday. Senior fellow Daniel DiSalvo and economic policy analyst Reade Ben found that even though enrollment numbers have declined, school districts have yet to adjust their staffing and budgeting to the reality of fewer students.
“Declining enrollment does not speak well to the level of confidence in large, urban-area public school systems,” Ben told Fox News Digital.
New York, Illinois and California faced the largest student enrollment declines while Texas and Arizona saw the largest increases, according to the report. Texas is expected to surpass California for the most public school students, but even the Lone Star State’s four biggest cities, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Austin, have seen slight declines over the last decade.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the enrollment decline, but the report primarily attributes the declining public school population to the increasing popularity of private schools, charter schools and homeschooling.
“Many parents have opted to send their children to private or charter schools,” Ben said. “As spending decreases and confidence declines, an important question must be asked: will throwing more money at a problem make it go away?”
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What halfway-sane parent would want their children to be under the supervision of American teacher union members?
Hours and hours every day ?
Being taught the lunaticwoke curriculum?
Even if the teacher isn’t a still-closeted pedophile, why would you want your child to spend hours and hours every single day interacting with the children of other parents?
Many of these kids are being abused or molested at home, or have all kinds of other drug or anger problems.
Yuck
Eww
No thank you
Hard pass
You are nuts. My mother was a public school teacher, as is my sister and many of my friends and relatives. Most public school teachers are not at all like you depict them to be. You are more likely to be a closeted pedophile than any of them are.
Why am I not surprised by your response.
A hundred years ago, universal public education was appreciated for what it was meant to be — an egalitarian universal opportunity to advance the prospects of one’s children, one’s family.
A hundred years ago if a k-12 student disrupted the classroom learning environment, it didn’t take long for that student to be expelled, or sent to “Reform School” where the child’s behavior might be “reformed.”
As a result, the kids who wanted to learn …… could be found in school learning. In peace.
But today it’s the opposite: Today the disruptive kids remain in school “as is their right” — and if you want to learn in peace you have to look for that outside our public schools.
(Fortunately, on the plus side, the opportunities are almost endless for kids today who do want to learn.)
Correct. Except for the fact that the government schools have ALWAYS been a mechanism for indoctrinating children into some “approved” worldview at the expense of their parents (and other taxpayers). They have always been totalitarian.
81 years ago the Supreme Court, speaking through the famous Robert Jackson in Barnette, a decision that went against public school boards, declared: “ If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.”
The case was Barnette, from 1943; and I don’t believe it has ever been reversed. So what happened?
I’m quite certain that the Barnette (1943) case has really absolutely nothing to do with the deterioration of public schooling over the years.
There are a lot of very disturbed kids in our public schools today — most of these kids wouldn’t have been permitted to attend public school in 1943.
A successful day of school should involve learning; it should not be just a day with no serious assaults ur killings. But a lot of schools today, that’s where we’re at.
And evidently parents are finally waking up to this reality, and they’re removing their kids from these places.
I’m not so sure the motivator relates to the pandemic. I think it’s more about knowing that there’s an excellent chance of some antisemitic sexual superfreak being put in charge of your kid.
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