Over a million school students drop out in US due to COVID-19 pandemic: Report

As per the latest government data, over a million children in the United States did not take admission in schools because of the coronavirus pandemic. A media report said that the steepest drop in admissions was reported in kindergarten schools.

The New York Times and Stanford University conducted a study analysing the data of around 70,000 government schools across 33 states. The results showed that 10,000 native public schools lost at least 20 percent of their kindergarten students in 2020.

The report said a majority of the decline in admissions was reported from areas where families are living below or near the poverty line. In these areas, the average annual family income of around four people stands at Rs 25 lakh or less. The report added that there has been a 28 percent higher decline in school admissions in such areas than in the rest of the country.