Monday, October 14, 2024

Homeschooling Rates Surge Across the Country in the Wake of COVID: Report; NY State Ed’s Pathetic Response to Rising Chronic Absenteeism in Schools: We’ll Stop Tracking It, and other C-Virus related stories

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Homeschooling rates surge across the country in the wake of COVID: Report
Delaware saw a 29-percent increase alone in homeschooling, according to the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
Homeschooling is growing across the country following the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report.
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy’s Homeschool Research Lab reported its analysis of the homeschooling rate for 21 states for the 2023-2024 academic year. The report also noted that only 30 states keep track of their homeschooling numbers.
Among the 21 states that reported their homeschooling participation for the 2023-2024 school year, only two showed a decline. The other 19 states showed increases, ranging from slight to significant.
For example, Georgia saw a 2% rise in homeschooling while Delaware’s is much higher at 29%, the report states. Vermont and New Hampshire saw decreases in the number of parents homeschooling their children. However, the researchers add that the decline in New Hampshire may not actually reflect a drop in homeschooling.
"Recent data shows that, in the 2023-2024 school year, homeschooling grew across the United States. While the exact reason for this growth is unknown, we do know that it was not driven by the pandemic or a sudden disruption to traditional schooling," the report stated. --->READ MORE HERE
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NY State Ed’s pathetic response to rising chronic absenteeism in schools: We’ll stop tracking it:
For years now, we’ve been slamming the State Education Department and its rulers, the state Board of Regents, as having turned against anything resembling excellence, but we’re still shocked at SED’s latest move.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli just issued a blaring alarm about how truancy soared in New York schools in the wake of the pandemic, and remains insanely high.
SED’s “solution”: Hide the data.
DiNapoli found that nearly a third of Empire State students are chronically truant — up sharply in the wake of all those school shutdowns and farcical “remote learning.”
The K-12 rate of chronic absenteeism hit 29.1% in the 2022-23 school year — meaning that multiple hundreds of thousands of kids missed at least 10% of the 180-day school year.
More alarming: The rate was highest for high-school students: 34.1%, 7.6 points worse than for elementary and middle-school students.
In New York City’s city public schools: 34.8% of students were chronically absent in Fiscal Year 2024, down just slightly from 36.2% the year before.
Kids that miss a lot of school not only aren’t learning, they’re likely losing ground.
They’re on a path to dropping out, or “graduating” without anything like the knowledge and skills a high-school diplomat should represent.
Chronic absenteeism is also a huge warning sign of delinquency, drug/alcohol abuse and future dysfunction. --->READ MORE HERE
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