135. America’s Public School Exodus
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
America’s Public School Exodus
There’s a sea change going on in American education. Whether it will destroy or save the public school system is a matter of much debate. We have the latest trends and statistics on the exodus from public schools.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison |
| 0:13.8 | podcast on JustTheNews.com. I hope you'll check out all the Just The News podcasts. You |
| 0:19.2 | can go to JustTheNews.com and see the list of them on the homepage. |
| 0:23.4 | Today, a mass exodus from America's public schools is underway. We'll have some new |
| 0:29.1 | statistics and talk about what this possibly historic shift could mean for the future |
| 0:34.4 | of American education. |
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| 1:19.7 | What if I were to tell you that in Denver, Colorado, so many kids are leaving the public |
| 1:25.3 | school system, which means money leaving the public school system because the schools |
| 1:29.9 | get money per students, that they're forecasting in Denver having to close down schools over |
| 1:35.5 | the next few years. That's just one example of a major shift going on in this country. |
| 1:42.1 | There's an exodus from public schools to the tune of about 2 million students that we |
| 1:47.2 | know of so far, according to the Census Bureau, since the pandemic began and the closings. |
| 1:53.1 | Our parents are homeschooling, moving their kids to charter schools, private schools, religious |
| 1:58.4 | schools. And there are a lot of reasons, not just the COVID shutdowns, but what parents |
| 2:04.1 | learned about the school systems and what they learned about themselves while their kids |
| 2:08.4 | were home. Whether this whole trend will hurt American education in public schools or |
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