Home schooling nearly doubled in NYC since pandemic’s start
From Chalkbeat:
Mirroring trends across the nation, the number of children being home-schooled has dramatically increased in New York City.
This school year, roughly 14,800 children across the five boroughs have opted to learn outside of school walls, according to internal education department data obtained by Chalkbeat. That number jumped by nearly 7,000 — or 88% — since the pandemic hit with the biggest gain occurring this school year, as more than 4,000 new students registered to home-school.
The largest increases were in districts with higher shares of low-income students, a Chalkbeat analysis found.
The reasons families decide to educate their children at home vary. For some parents, the pandemic may have pushed them out of the workforce or into remote jobs where they found themselves with the time and desire to educate their children after getting a taste of it during remote learning.
Read the full article here:
https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2022/2/17/22939962/nyc-homeschool-increase-covid
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