The nation's second largest school district is having major issues with enrollment. OverAccording to Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, last school year about 50% of students were chronically absent. He said the biggest loss of enrollment is in the youngest-aged students. The district has seen a 9,000 student decline in TK and Kindergarten enrollment.
Carvalho is dedicating 600 staff members to reengage students who are chronically absent. On the second day of school the district reported a 91.8% attendance rate and on the third day that number went up again to 92.8%.LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho joined Marla Tellez on FOX 11's Special Report on Monday night following the first day of school for thousands of LAUSD students.
"After two years plus of pandemic, that created social isolation stressor in the lives of students. Children in our community who lost relatives, who’ve seen absolute devastation. Huge unprecedented, historic, academic learning loss of opportunity with instructional days that were absolutely lost to many of our kids," Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said.
He says in many of these cases students took care of their relatives or worked jobs to help their families during the pandemic. COVID infections also played a role in some students not returning to school. Just days before school started, Carvalho
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How about you get your ass to school like everybody else who didn’t want to go to school but did for forever. No, 2 years later you don’t get to blame Covid for not showing up
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