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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

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Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. Overall, public school enrollment fell by 710,000 students between the 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 school years in the 21 states plus Washington, D.C., She teaches dance to elementary school kids now. After that, Kailani stopped attending math.

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

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A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. Starting in 2022, middle school students are supposed to be taught about birth control, but health courses will remain optional in high school.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

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This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.