So where are the kids? Truant? Moved away? Julie? Imaginary?
—So where are the kids? Truant? Moved away? Julie? Imaginary?”
A good question.
An AI answer...
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—Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has lost 8,300 students after a decade of enrollment declines. The pandemic accelerated enrollment declines as families switched to homeschooling, charter schools, and other options. Other factors that may have contributed to the decline include:
Dissatisfaction with high school options
Declining birth rates
Families moving out of Chicago
Some parents wanting to keep their kids at home because of the coronavirus
CPS’ first year of full-time, in-person learning during the pandemic
CPS’ relaxed requirements for entry into its virtual academy
CPS’ funding
CPS receives about $1 billion less than what Illinois considers adequate funding. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of state money each year service the district’s massive debt rather than provide for classroom needs.
CPS has 329,836 students in grades PK, K-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 15 to 1. According to state test scores, 17% of students are at least proficient in math and 21% in reading
Of those students, 91% came from low-income families. According to CPS Chief Portfolio Officer Alfonso Carmona, multiple factors contributed to the drop enrollment. These include dissatisfaction with high school options, declining birth rates and families moving out of Chicago.J
“So where are the kids? Truant? Moved away? Julie? Imaginary?”
It’s Chicago...a lot of them have been shot.