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School enrollment has dropped as a result of the pandemic, potentially costing local districts money and meaning some children could miss out on schooling.
Wichita public school enrollment fell by more than 2,600 students this year, a 5.6% drop that has officials scrambling to reconnect with families and get kids back.
The enrollment drop echoes statewide and national trends, as many families opted for virtual schools or homeschooling during COVID-19 school closures and didn’t enroll at their local schools last fall.
Wichita recently hired two full-time staff members to visit preschools and daycare centers and meet with families whose students left the district.
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Like a lot of other rural Kansas districts, Smoky Valley Unified School District 400 had already been dealing with the pitfalls of declining enrollment when one of the most disruptive years in the history of Kansas education started.
Covering a 395.5-square-mile footprint, the district isn’t actually that big, at least in comparison to other mammoth districts covering swaths of the state. USD 400, centered around the charming little town of Lindsborg halfway between McPherson and Salina, had been steadily losing students since a peak of 1,600 students in fall 2017, mostly as jobs became more difficult to find, said district business manager Julie Martin.
Kaylah Blackmon & Michael Beasley Wichita Kansas teen mystery deaths.
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Kaylah Blackmon & Michael Beasley Wichita Kansas teen mystery deaths. How did a boyfriend and girlfriend come to be found dead 3 days apart?
How did they end up dead? A
Kansas teen was found dead inside her car on Thursday outside of an apartment complex three days after her boyfriend’s body was found next to an abandoned church.
Kaylah Blackmon, 18, had been missing since Sunday, when she left her
Wichita home, telling her parents at the time she would be back shortly, family members