The Progress Report: How Some Schools Are Trying to Counter Enrollment Decline

The Progress Report: How Some Schools Are Trying to Counter Enrollment Decline

Schools have been hit hard by enrollment decline in recent years. There are tens of thousands of fewer students in local public schools than there were just a decade ago. Many school leaders have struggled to figure out how to approach that challenge and new numbers released last week by the CDC confirm what we already knew: the decline will only get worse. That’s because the U.S. birth rate has fallen to a record low. Simply put, there will be …