School Enrollment
Some families cited a lack of affordable housing. Others were searching for better schools.
This year, charter schools are serving about 15% of public school students in Colorado.
Jeffco would close the school for a year while it works to set up a new high school that focuses on career education. What that looks like is still to be determined.
The university intends to redouble its efforts to attract adult learners.
The requests are notable because the Education Department has so far been reluctant to consider enrollment caps at overcrowded schools as a means of reducing class sizes.
Many school waitlists are shrinking.
The conference marked 20 years since city officials made major reforms that set the admissions system on the path to what families see today.
About 6,000 students in Jeffco lost Medicaid, which had automatically qualified them as at-risk students.
The extension came hours before applications were set to close for the city’s eighth graders, who rank 12 or more top choices from an array of over 400 schools.
The numbers mark the second straight year that enrollment declines have flattened out, a welcome development for the city’s public school system.
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New York City, like other districts across the country, is grappling with a yearslong enrollment decline and a growing number of tiny schools.
The delay comes as this year’s fifth graders will be able to apply widely to middle schools across the city for the first time, instead of largely being limited to their home zone or district.
The city’s notoriously complex high school admissions process opened Tuesday. Middle school kicks off Oct. 9. Families will soon be able to access their random number, or 'lottery' number, in MySchools.
New York City families can apply to more than 12 high schools this year, as well as any middle school across the city, the city’s Education Department announced.
With closures on the table, Philly principals defend their schools before Board of Education.
From school enrollment shifts to a possible cell phone ban, these are some of the key issues we’re watching in New York City schools this year.
Superintendent goes door to door checking on students who haven’t shown up this year.
The new tool is being developed through a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s BluePrint Labs. Officials said the timeline for its release remains unclear.
The overall enrollment of New York City’s school system, as well as its demographic makeup, has been changing. Here’s what to know about where things stand.