‘A painful reality’: School closures follow shrinking enrollment across the country

BALTIMORE – School districts around the country are facing a painful reality as enrollments decline.

For many districts, there are too many schools for the number of kids they’ll serve in a few years, according to Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University.

It’s not a matter of if schools will close but when, as lower birth rates have led to smaller incoming kindergarten classes…

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