What percentage of non-US born students dropped in three years?
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The Palm Beach County School District is one of many across the state dealing with a drop in enrollment this school year. The district says they’re down thousands of students from what they expected.
Those empty seats are having a massive impact on the district’s budget. With fewer kids, that means fewer dollars coming from the state. To make up for it, the district had to eliminate almost 250 positions.
So why are these kids not showing up at school?
The I-Team went digging for answers, and what we found is that some families have chosen to send kids to private school or homeschool, and others have moved away…