The Public School Pandemic Plunge: Parents of 1.4 Million Kids Fled in Pursuit of Private Schools, Homeschooling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The Daily Wire reported the United States Department of Education found that enrollment in public schools "fell by its largest margin in at least two decades" -- a drop representing a 3% loss in enrollment between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years.
59% : In a new report, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) announced charter school enrollment had a 7.1% growth last year, which was the largest expansion for the charter school industry in the last five years.
59% : As CBN's Faithwire reported, only 8% of public schools never closed their doors.
54% : In fact, 240,000 new students enrolled in charter schools alone.
52% : Charter schools are publicly funded but they're run by privately-owned companies.
50% : "The survey found that, during the pandemic, Christian school parents found it easier to manage their child's time, communicate with teachers, manage their child's assignments, and were better able to keep up their child's morale than the parents of children in public schools," Graves wrote in a column for RealClear Education.
48% : "Parents of children in Christian schools are far more satisfied with their child's education during COVID than the parents of children in public schools," reported the study's authors, Todd Graves and Jacob Hawkins.
40% : A whopping 80% of Christian school parents are satisfied with their children's experiences, while 55% of parents with kids in public schools are satisfied.

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