State's Public Schools See Large Enrollment Declines During COVID-19
Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the Carolina Journal. The author of this post is David N. Bass. Public school systems in the Tar Heel State are experiencing the highest declines in student enrollment in decades. Since the pandemic arrived in North Carolina last March, student enrollment in public schools has declined 4.4%, or nearly 63,000 students. For context, that number is nearly the size of North Carolina's third-largest school district, Guilford County's. According to data from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, the state's largest sc...
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