A big drop in number of school-age children is upon us Julia Steiny projo.com The Providence Journal:
"As if there weren’t already oceans of bad news, here’s an ugly statistic we’d better face head-on. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) projects an 11.5 percent drop in our school-age population between 2006 and 2018.
We’ve been losing kids for a few years. But we’re still due to lose almost 4,000 more, or roughly the entire District of Chariho.
Schools will close. Or worse, districts will keep schools open by imposing cost-cutting measures that hurt kids and the quality of their education. The last thing this poor state needs is to backslide in its efforts to improve the quality of its workforce."
"As if there weren’t already oceans of bad news, here’s an ugly statistic we’d better face head-on. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) projects an 11.5 percent drop in our school-age population between 2006 and 2018.
We’ve been losing kids for a few years. But we’re still due to lose almost 4,000 more, or roughly the entire District of Chariho.
Schools will close. Or worse, districts will keep schools open by imposing cost-cutting measures that hurt kids and the quality of their education. The last thing this poor state needs is to backslide in its efforts to improve the quality of its workforce."