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4 trends in public school enrollment due to COVID-19

  • Written by Tareena Musaddiq, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan
imageU.S. public school enrollment overall decreased by 3% in the fall of 2020, but kindergarten enrollment dropped 9%.Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

When schools began the fall semester of 2020 – six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic – many of them reported a significant decline in student...

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