Kids Left Schools Last Year Because of the Switch to Remote Classes; Early Numbers Suggest They May Not Be Coming Back Soon (The 74)

The 74 MILLION – With the release of new data in recent months, a clearer picture is emerging of how K-12 enrollment has responded to the pandemic. A research brief released in September by scholars at the University of Michigan and Boston University, Tareena Musaddiq, Kevin Stange, Andrew Bacher-Hicks, & Joshua Goodman, also detected evidence of significant enrollment drops in Michigan public schools, with coinciding increases in private school enrollment and the rate of homeschooling.