Sarah Mervosh, Francesca Paris and Claire Cain Miller
With fewer students, many public school districts are confronting unfilled classrooms, and hard choices about school closures.
As American women have fewer babies each year, the number of young children in the United States is dwindling. The trend is now catching up to the nation’s public school districts.
There are simply fewer children to attend school in America today: The number of public school students in kindergarten through 12th grade has fallen in 30 states since the mid-2010s.
Enrollment in U.S. public schools plunged during the pandemic. Public schools lost more than a million students.
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Choose life.
It is interesting to observe the organizations and fund$ that support anti birth and family policies.