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Why Public Schools Are ‘Hemorrhaging’ Students in Major Cities—and Where the Students Are Going

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Why Public Schools Are ‘Hemorrhaging’ Students in Major Cities—and Where the Students Are Going
In learning pods, or microschools, small groups of families take turns teaching children, or pool resources to hire a teacher. Andrii Medvednikov/Shutterstock
Kerry McDonald
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The new academic year hasn’t even begun, and public school enrollment already isn’t looking good in some parts of the country.

Kerry McDonald
Kerry McDonald
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Kerry McDonald is a senior education fellow at FEE and host of the weekly LiberatED podcast. She is also the author of “Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom” (2019) and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. She lives in Cambridge, Mass., with her husband and four children.
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