She\u2019d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school\u2019s modern dance troupe and taking art classes.
\nInstead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn\u2019t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts\u2019 public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then.
\nShe is among hundreds of thousands of students around the country who disappeared from public schools during the pandemic and didn\u2019t resume their studies elsewhere.
\nAn analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University\u2019s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 230,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. These students didn\u2019t move out of state, and they didn\u2019t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data.
\nIn short, they\u2019re missing.
\n\u201cMissing\u201d students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. In the years since, they have become largely a budgeting problem. School leaders and some state officials worried aloud about the\u2002fiscal challenges their districts faced if these students didn\u2019t come back. Each student represents money from the city, state and federal governments.
\nGone is the urgency to find the students who left \u2014 those eligible for free public education but who are not receiving any schooling at all. Early in the pandemic, school staff went door-to-door to reach and reengage kids. Most such efforts have ended.
\n\u201cEveryone is talking about declining enrollment, but no one is talking about who\u2019s leaving the system and why,\u201d said Tom Sheppard, a New York City parent and representative on the city’s Panel for Educational Policy.
\n\u201cNo one,” he said, “is forthcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n
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