As a result of declining enrollments and budget shortages, DCP Alum Rock High School, a small charter school with roughly 200 students, will close its doors this summer, the Mercury News reported.
“I know once the board said ‘yes, we recommend closing it,’ we took a breath … and once we walked out that door, it was just (a blow),” Madison Christian Sumpter, a junior at Downtown College Prep Alum Rock High School, told the Mercury News.
Since the 2019-20 academic year, when the Covid-19 pandemic shook California school systems, DCP Alum Rock High School’s enrollment has decreased by 30%.… Read More
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!The School District of Philadelphia hopes parents will begin enrolling students in their kindergarten classes sooner rather than later.A new campaign to bolster enrollment and increase early registration for kindergarteners for the upcoming school year kicked off Monday.Superintendent Tony B. Watlington, Sr., joined staff and teachers at Ellwood School to announce their “Thrive At Five” campaign.
Children must be five years old by September 1 to start kindergarten in the fall.The program encourages parents to… Read More
