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Last place. Second-to-last. Third-from-last. No matter what districts the team at St. Louis University’s PRiME Center put St. Louis’ school enrollment up against, the city stayed at the bottom.
“We were kind of shocked going through it to see such a consistent result,” said Evan Rhinesmith, the center’s director of research.
St. Louis Public Schools has an average of 308 students in each of its 71 schools currently, according to the analysis. Include the city’s 36 charter schools, and it’s 313 children spread across 107 schools. Twenty-six schools in the district are
The district once educated 115,000 students. Today, its enrollment has fallen to about 21,000. While it’s been closing schools for decades, enrollment has yet to bottom out.
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Missouri’s education department is holding firm on the need to administer standardized testing this spring, even as teachers and parents say it’s a waste of valuable instructional time and the cause of undue stress on kids.
Missouri will not use test scores in calculating a district’s annual performance scores, but education officials and researchers say the scores are necessary to benchmark learning during the pandemic.
Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education “is committed to administering statewide assessments this school year; that has not changed,” spokeswoman Mallory McGowin said. The department now has the backing of the Biden administration.
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Many teachers and parents want annual standardized testing skipped again this spring. But state education officials say the data, even if flawed, is still valuable.
Missouri school students will sit down for state assessments soon. For some, it’ll be their first time in a classroom in more than a year. Teachers and parents say testing should be canceled, but education officials counter the data is critical.
Missouri’s education department is holding firm on the need to administer standardized testing this spring, even as teachers and parents say it’s a waste of valuable instructional time and the cause of undue stress on kids.
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