California's 'missing' students may have moved away, be home-schooling without notifying the state, or simply be out of school.
much of that driven by families not wanting to put kindergartners into online learning after campuses closed because of the pandemic.The new research focuses on the totality of enrollment drops during the pandemic years and attempts to determine what happened to these students to the extent possible, bringing in data from private school enrollment and also figures for students being home-schooled.
In California, about 56% of the enrollment decline of about 271,000 students across three school years cannot be explained alone by shrinking birth rates combined with more students in home-schooling and private schools. However, one major limitation of the analysis is that a student would fall into the tally of the missing if that student moved to another country or to a state, such as Texas or Illinois, that did not provide the necessary data. In California, families are known to have left for neighboring Nevada and Arizona, and the Texas cities of Dallas and San Antonio — all for which data were not available. Mexico is also a destination for some families.
Kailani Taylor-Cribb poses for a portrait at a neighborhood community garden in Asheville, N.C., on Jan. 31. In December, Kailani moved to North Carolina to make a new start.
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