Colorado school data is missing 9,000 children, a new analysis finds
Colorado public school enrollment has declined since COVID. It’s hard to know if children are in private school, home school, or no school at all.
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Colorado public school enrollment has declined since COVID. It’s hard to know if children are in private school, home school, or no school at all.
Analysis found 240,000 students in 21 states who have gone missing from schools
Hundreds of thousands of students around the country disappeared from public schools during the pandemic and didn’t resume their studies elsewhere.
Hundreds of thousands of students across the nation have disappeared from public schools since the onset of the pandemic, an analysis from The Associated Press, Stanford University's Big Local News project and Stanford Education professor Thomas Dee showed.
The real figure of missing students is likely far higher and represents the most spectacular failure of education in the history of America's public schools.