U.S. cities face crisis as public school enrollment drops
Across the U.S., COVID-19 relief money is helping subsidize growing numbers of big-city schools with small numbers of students.
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Across the U.S., COVID-19 relief money is helping subsidize growing numbers of big-city schools with small numbers of students.
KC area kindergarten enrollment dropped amid COVID. That could be a problem next year Mará Rose Williams and Sarah Ritter, The Kansas City Star Mar. 7—Jennifer Fontanella has been preparing her son for kindergarten for years. He was diagnosed with anxiety, so she knew socializing with other 5-year-olds would not come easy. "From the age of 2 1/2 until just recently at 5, he's been in occupational therapy to learn how to share and be in the same room with other kids. We've worked his whole life to get him here," the Spring Hill mom said. So it was with sadness that she decid...