‘Bleeding kids:’ NYC public schools face biggest enrollment drop in four years

Source: New York Post

New York City public schools shed another 22,000 students this year, with enrollment plunging 2. 4%, the steepest decline in four years, according to preliminary Department of Education data — and experts say this trend will only get worse under incoming Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. The startling new numbers follow a post-Covid trend that has seen families hit the exits over the past five years, adding up to a 12.