After years of declining enrollment, public schools have grown by 11,000 pre-kindergarten to grade 12 students over the last five years.
SEATTLE —
After years of declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools.
Not exact matches
Enrollment, meanwhile, has risen in recent
years,
after four decades
of decline, and more affluent families are putting their students in the city's public schools, a sign
of growing confidence in a DCPS education.
These efforts have paid off in stable
enrollments and budgets,
after several
years of decline.
School district leaders planned to transform Westinghouse with single - sex classes and longer class periods, but the plan was so poorly executed that the school scrapped it just weeks
after the 2011 - 2012
year began, kicking off a tumultuous period
of declining enrollment and frequent principal and teacher turnover.
After years of decline, public school
enrollment has been increasing in the District since school
year 2009 - 10.
This
year, D.C. Public Schools is projecting 49,145 students, up from 47,548, a fourth
year of increases
after many
years of declining enrollment.
In Pennsylvania, where student
enrollment in public schools is
declining, the cost
of testing has quintupled in the last 15
years, even
after adjusting for inflation.
The analysis included results from 48 traditional CPS schools — almost all
of them neighborhood schools — that the city closed
after the last school
year, citing poor academic performance,
declining enrollment and the costs
of maintaining aging buildings.