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November 30, 2021

State schools face $500M funding drop

SEATTLE (AP) — New state data shows school systems in Washington still have not recovered their enrollment losses from the pandemic.

The Seattle Times reports that between October 2019 and October 2020, 39,000 fewer students enrolled in public schools, about a 3.5% drop. The numbers weren't distributed evenly across grades — the most pronounced losses were among younger students; the number of kindergarten students plummeted by 14%. By this fall, the state's enrollment had only grown by a thousand students.


 
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