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Exclusive Data Highlights Paradox: As Enrollment Falls, Fewer Schools Close

Linda Jacobson

David Zweig Calls COVID School Closures ‘a False Story about Medical Consensus’

Greg Toppo

KIPP’s Night Kindergarten in Newark: A Rare ‘Bright Spot’ in COVID’s Dark Days

Linda Jacobson

After LAUSD Enrollment Falls by 11,000, Board President Says Schools May Close

Ben Chapman

After Altadena School Burns to the Ground, Community Wonders What’s Next

Gabrielle Birkner

At Least 22 School Districts Totally Or Partially Closed As Fires Spread Around LA County

Mariana Dale & Ross Brenneman

Don’t Want to Close Underenrolled Schools? Here’s How to Make the Math Work

Marguerite Roza

West Virginia School Board Approves More Closures

Amelia Ferrell Knisely

Trump’s School Improvement Plan: Deport American Students

Mark Keierleber

School Closures Are Way Down, but Delaying These Hard Choices Makes Things Worse

Chad Aldeman

Big-City Districts Are Beset by Financial Dysfunction — and Kids Pay the Price

Marguerite Roza & Maggie Cicco

Chicago School Closures Offer a Cautionary Tale for Dealing With Fiscal Cliff

Thomas Toch & Maureen Kelleher

Arkansas School District’s Loss of Students, Revenue Spark Fears of Closure

Tess Vrbin

Report: Nearly 500 Schools Underenrolled and Chronically Underperforming

Marianna McMurdock

18 Years, $2 Billion: Inside New Orleans’s Biggest School Recovery Effort in History

Beth Hawkins

Trumped-up School Panic: Campaign Lie Forces Ohio School Closures

Mark Keierleber

Lahaina Schools to Close for Fire Anniversary

Megan Tagami

Lessons for Closing Schools: Face the Challenge, Prioritize Students, Be Honest

Robin Lake

Parents Invoke ‘Brown’ in Lawsuit over Closure of RI School for English Learners

Ciara Meyer

‘No Easy Answers’ For Keeping Hawaii’s Smallest Public Schools Open And Thriving

Megan Tagami

Fewer Students, Crumbling Buildings: Columbus Looks to Shut Schools Again

Wayne D’Orio

How Does a School District Go Broke With $1.1B in Revenues? When It Spends $1.3B

Chad Aldeman

Closing Campuses: How Much Money Does It Save School Districts, Anyway?

Marguerite Roza & Aashish Dhammani

EPISD Plans School Closures, Consolidations Amid Sharply Declining Enrollment

Claudia Silva

Four Years After COVID, Former Superintendent Looks Back with Pride — and Regret

Linda Jacobson

As Enrollment Drops, School Closures Loom for More Washington Communities

Grace Deng

Acknowledging Missteps, Jeffco Chief Navigates ‘Devastating’ School Closures

Linda Jacobson

Jackson Public Schools Board Votes to Close 13 School Buildings

Julia James

Oklahoma Education Officials Urge Tulsa to Eye School Closures, Improve Scores

Nuria Martinez-Keel

Maui’s Displaced Students: Hawaii to Reopen Lahaina Schools 2 Months After Fire

Megan Tagami

Texas Districts Mull School Closures Amid Declining Enrollment, Competition from Charters

Brian Lopez

Excessive Heat and Humidity in Rhode Island Leads to Widespread School Closures

Kevin G. Andrade

Closing Time: San Antonio Supe Hopes Info Sharing, Help for Parents Can Ease School Shutdowns

Beth Hawkins

There’s Lots at Stake for Districts & Kids When Underenrolled Schools Stay Open

Chad Aldeman

Educational Redlining, Rezoning and the Bitter Politics of School Closures

Tim DeRoche

COVID Brief: School Closures and Learning Loss Connected Worldwide, New Report Shows

John Bailey

In New Graphic Novel, Pandemic Scatters a Vulnerable School Community

Greg Toppo

It’s Time to Start Preparing Now for School Closures that Are Coming

Timothy Daly

More Schools Have Closed in Kentucky This Year Than Rest of U.S. Combined. Why?

Asher Lehrer-Small

Pandemic-Related School Closures Fueled Enrollment Exodus, Report Finds

Linda Jacobson

Virtual Nightmare: One Student’s Journey Through the Pandemic

Linda Jacobson

New Learning Loss Scorecard Shows Parents How Pandemic Impacted Their Schools

The 74

Strong Link in Big City Districts’ 4th-Grade Math Scores to School Closures

Asher Lehrer-Small

New Testing Data: Fewer Students in Early Grades Developing Basic Phonics Skills

Linda Jacobson

‘Treat This As You Would Any Illness’: Schools Across U.S. Downgrade COVID Rules

Asher Lehrer-Small

Q&A: Education Reporter Anya Kamenetz on COVID Failures & Students’ Stolen Year

Kevin Mahnken

More Than 70 NM National Guard Members Step in as Classroom Subs

Jo Napolitano

Sr. White House Advisor on Accessing School COVID Testing Amid ‘Supply Crisis’

Asher Lehrer-Small

Reopening Struggle Revived as Thousands of Schools Close and COVID Cases Explode

Asher Lehrer-Small