The staggering amount of money being poured into public school systems and the vast amounts of power being wielded by public school unions (they now run Chicago) is in sharp contrast to the actual student population.
Not only are students learning less in schools than they did in years past, but student enrollment continues to drop in major cities and even when students are enrolled, they’re not showing up. In huge numbers . More recently, in the 2022–23 school year chronic absenteeism in California showed a slight improvement, dropping to 25% from 30% in the previous year. Still, in the year before the pandemic rates were 12%. That translates into 1.5 million students. About 1.1 million of them are black or Hispanic.
But what’s really striking here is that younger students have stopped showing up or maybe never did. Prior to the pandemic, high schoolers had the highest rates of chronic […]
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