Districts on the hunt for 3,000 missing students
Districts on the hunt for 3,000 missing students Schools seek to reconnect with families following enrollment losses All districts – Where did they all go? That’s what educators across Kent County and statewide have been trying to find out since learning of a dramatic drop in K-12 enrollment this fall – by some 53,000 students across Michigan and 3,000 in Kent ISD public schools. Local districts large and small have taken hits to their student counts – and their budgets – as pandemic learning scattered families looking for options. Many parents held their children back from kind...