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California public schools have experienced a sharp decline in enrollment this year as the pandemic forced millions into online school, according to data made public Thursday.
The drop came as the state s school districts dawdled in bringing children back to the classroom, making California one of the slowest in the country to reopen schools.
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The California Department of Education data shows that the number of students at K-12 schools dropped by more than 160,000 this academic year, most of them at the K-6 level, to a total of 6 million.
Stop AAPI Hate: Schools Must Ensure Well-Being and Safety of Asian American Students
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Stop AAPI Hate issued the following statement on April 14.
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As school districts across the country return to in-person learning, action must be taken to protect the safety and well-being of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students. Los Angeles Unified School District the second-largest school district in the United States, serving a county with 1.5 million AAPIs is among the school districts opening this week.
AAPI students are returning to school at a lower rate than their non-Asian peers. A U.S. Education Department survey shows that as of February 2021, almost 7 in 10 Asian American K-12 students were still learning online only. This hesitancy to return to in person learning has been partially attributed to the increase in hate against the AAPI community since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jenny Ogden (l to r), paraprofessional, works with kindergartener Savannah as she works on an art project during Liz Duffield s preschool kindergarten combination classroom at Lu Sutton Elementary School in December 2020 in Novato.
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Jenny Ogden (l to r), paraprofessional, works with kindergartener Savannah as she works on an art project during Liz Duffield s preschool kindergarten combination classroom at Lu Sutton Elementary School in December 2020 in Novato.
April 22, 2021
The pandemic has intensified a multi-year trend of dwindling student enrollment statewide, causing a steep drop this year. More than a third of the decline stemmed from 61,000 missing kindergarteners.
Derek Chauvin s trial, Earth Day, and other top Opinion reads this week
From the Chauvin trial verdict, to electric cars, Earth Day, and Walter Mondale s death, here are some of our top columns you may have missed.
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In today s fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we ve started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week s top USA TODAY Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading, and for your feedback. USA TODAY Opinion editors
By Starita Smith Why didn t anyone intervene to save George Floyd s life in Minneapolis? They had more than 9 minutes to do it while he was under Derek Chauvin s knee, but no one did. Some in my diverse group of longtime friends wondered about this recently on Facebook why no bystander bolted forward to break the chokehold, even knowing they d be arrested.