‘Bleeding kids:’ NYC public schools face biggest enrollment drop in four years
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New York City public schools shed another 22,000 students this year, with enrollment plunging 2.4%, the steepest decline in four years, according to preliminary Department of Education data — and experts say this trend will only get worse under incoming Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani . The startling new numbers follow a post-Covid trend that has seen families hit the exits over the past five years, adding up to a 12.2% decline. Insiders see no end to the carnage. “We are bleeding kids,” a city high
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