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Kansas Lost 16,000 Students to COVID. Then It Lost 7,000 More.
In most states, the pandemic was a dip. Kansas schools lost 16,114 students between 2019-20 and 2020-21, a 3.4% drop that aligned with the national pattern of families pulling children from public edu...
Kansas Lost 12,539 Students in Three Years
Kansas public schools gained 5,243 students across the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, clawing back a third of the 16,114-student crater left by the pandemic. Two years felt like a turning point. It...