L.A. Unified enrollment continues to fall, but drop is cushioned by influx of 4-year-olds
2 years, 2 months ago

L.A. Unified enrollment continues to fall, but drop is cushioned by influx of 4-year-olds

LA Times  

A high school student from Maywood Center for Enriched Studies magnet school speaks during a lunch break. Student enrollment at Los Angeles Unified continued to decline this fall — although less than district officials had predicted — as new state funding expanded transitional kindergarten to more 4-year-olds. Alberto Carvalho said the enrollment of 422,276 — spanning from transitional kindergarten through 12 grade — is a “reason for celebration.” He pointed toward the predicted decline of 4.1% versus the actual decline of 1.9%, the smallest drop since 2013-14. The “stabilization of enrollment in the aftermath of the pandemic,” Carvalho said, “is a phenomenon that is interesting, that I’ve seen only in one additional large urban district in our country. “I just think that there are parents everywhere who would love to have their kids in a school that’s creating hydrogen motors.” Enrollment has been incrementally dropping in L.A. Unified since peaking at about 737,000 students 21 years ago.

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L.A. child-care industry in tailspin, hit with disruption as transition kindergarten grows
5 months ago

L.A. child-care industry in tailspin, hit with disruption as transition kindergarten grows

LA Times  

Ian Harris, who has worked at From the Heart Preschool in Los Angeles for a year, serves lunch to children in February. This year, director Nina Moench said, she’s losing seven students to transitional kindergarten — the state’s rapidly expanding new grade for 4-year-old public school children. “I’m just hoping everything will swing back the other way.” More than four …

California public school enrollment drops again, but transitional kindergarten is up
7 months, 1 week ago

California public school enrollment drops again, but transitional kindergarten is up

LA Times  

Transitional kindergarten students clap with teacher Matilde Lopez, right, and coach Claudia Mesa, left, on the first day of school at Weemes Elementary in Los Angeles. Enrollment at California’s public schools continued to decline this year, but by only.25%, or 15,000 students, state data showed, a much slower pace than the steep declines experienced during difficult pandemic years when classes …

Editorial: Bring back the lost children of Los Angeles Unified
2 years, 4 months ago

Editorial: Bring back the lost children of Los Angeles Unified

LA Times  

Some 10,000 to 20,000 Los Angeles area kids are missing — not in the picture-on-a-milk-carton sense, but vanished from Los Angeles Unified School District enrollment rosters and unaccounted for as schools plan the start of classes on Aug. 15. Opinion Editorial: L.A. Unified fails to get kids the tutoring they need LAUSD has a history of not following through with …

L.A. schools chief pushes to delay student COVID vaccination mandate
2 years, 7 months ago

L.A. schools chief pushes to delay student COVID vaccination mandate

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Unified School District should delay its requirement that students be vaccinated against COVID-19 until next year, its superintendent recommended Thursday, given the system’s already high vaccination rates among older students as well as low transmission rates in schools. “We also know that the district’s high vaccination rates played a crucial role in keeping kids in school throughout …

California public school enrollment spirals, dropping by 110,000 students this year
2 years, 8 months ago

California public school enrollment spirals, dropping by 110,000 students this year

LA Times  

Students read during class at Pomelo Community Charter School, a K-5 campus in West Hills. California public school enrollment has dropped for the fifth year in a row — a decline of more than 110,000 students — as K-12 campuses struggle against pandemic disruptions and a shrinking population of school-age kids amid wide concerns that the decrease is so large …

Editorial: LAUSD is shrinking. That could be a good thing
3 years, 2 months ago

Editorial: LAUSD is shrinking. That could be a good thing

LA Times  

Students make their way to the front door of Normont Elementary School on the first day of in-class instruction on Aug. 16, as LAUSD officials welcomed back children and teachers. After schools closed for the pandemic, and after years of declining birth rates, everyone expected enrollment to drop even further this year in the Los Angeles Unified School District. About …

L.A. Unified enrollment drops by more than 27,000 students, steepest decline in years
3 years, 2 months ago

L.A. Unified enrollment drops by more than 27,000 students, steepest decline in years

LA Times  

Students gather in class at Daniel Webster Middle School with LAUSD Interim Supt. Enrollment in the Los Angeles Unified School District has dropped by more than 27,000 students since last year, a decline of close to 6% — a much steeper slide than in any recent year. The overall enrollment decline in L.A. Unified last year was about 4% — …

Kindergarten declines fuel steep drop in public school enrollment amid pandemic
3 years, 8 months ago

Kindergarten declines fuel steep drop in public school enrollment amid pandemic

LA Times  

A kindergarten teacher collects crayons from students at Lupine Hill Elementary School in Calabasas last November. The pandemic has intensified a multiyear trend of dwindling public school student enrollment statewide, causing a steep drop this year with more than a third of the decline stemming from 61,000 no-show kindergarteners. Other districts where enrollment increased include Placer Union High School District, …

US parents delaying preschool and kindergarten amid pandemic
4 years, 2 months ago

US parents delaying preschool and kindergarten amid pandemic

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Kindergarten isn't required in most states, and in normal …

Zoom overload, COVID-19 hardship: Thousands of kindergartners are no-shows at local schools
4 years, 3 months ago

Zoom overload, COVID-19 hardship: Thousands of kindergartners are no-shows at local schools

LA Times  

In a file photo, kindergarten teacher Adriana Rosas is shown with her students, who are having fun and learning at Aloha Health Medical Academy in Lakewood. Kindergarten enrollment is down sharply in Los Angeles public schools and elsewhere, signaling that many parents of the state’s youngest students face heavy burdens with online learning and may be opting out of traditional …

LAUSD kindergarten enrollment plummets for online school
4 years, 3 months ago

LAUSD kindergarten enrollment plummets for online school

LA Times  

Gardner Elementary coordinator Lali Oustinovskaya, seated, talks with parent Byata Dikker at a technology and supply pickup event before the start of the school year at the Hollywood campus. Enrollment at the Los Angeles Unified School District has continued its downward trend for the 2020-21 academic year, with the decline in kindergarten enrollment — especially in the school system’s lowest-income …

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