New York City Public Schools Are Bleeding Students After Two Years of COVID-19 Restrictions
19th July 2022
According to the Office of Student Enrollment, the city is projecting that 28,100 fewer students will enroll in public schools in the fall. During the 2020-21 school year, the city lost roughly 43,000 students, and an additional net 21,000 students departed during the 2021-22 school year. And that accounts for over half of the 120,000 net students who had left the city’s public school system over the last five years.
New York is increasingly unliveable for families. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio focused more on punishing charter schools (and, by extension, the parents who wanted their children to attend them) than on improving public schools in the city. And just as in California, COVID-19 has accelerated the decline of public schools in the Big Apple, and it isn’t hard to see why.