Vaccination rates among American kindergartners decreased during the 2025-2026 school year for all tracked vaccines , the Centers for Disease Control reported on Monday. - Exemptions from getting one or more vaccines increased in 41 states and the District of Columbia, growing to 4.2% from 3.6% the year before. Why it matters: The dropoff coincided with continued efforts by the Trump administration to make controversial vaccine policy changes and with measles cases hitting levels not seen in more than three decades. By the numbers: Coverage with the MMR, DTaP, polio and varicella vaccine decreased in more than half of states, ranging from 92% for diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine to 92.4% for the measles,…
AI:The era of the state-controlled education monopoly is facing a massive revolt as enrollment numbers plummet across Virginia and Maryland. While leftist pundits and establishment academics love to blame declining birth rates for shrinking school populations, they are desperately ignoring the most significant driver: a staggering 51 percent surge in homeschooling. Parents are no longer willing to outsource their children's souls to failing, ideologically driven bureaucracies that prioritize radical social engineering over basic literacy and traditional values. This exodus isn't just a statistical fluctuation; it is a direct survival response from families fleeing the crumbling stability and declining standards of the public school system in…Open
Data: U.S. Census Bureau ; Chart: Russell Contreras/Axios White students now make up less than half of all Americans enrolled in school from nursery through graduate programs, according to an Axios analysis of new U.S. Census data . Why it matters: America's future workforce and electorate are moving through schools strained by 20-year-low reading scores , teacher shortages and racial segregation at levels not seen since the 1960s. - How schools, colleges and policymakers respond to this demographic shift will define opportunity for a generation. The big picture: White (non-Latino, non-multiracial) student enrollment fell from 46.7 million in 2000 to 36.6 million in 2024. - White students account for 48.8% of all Americans enrolled in…
chatgpt The empty desks appearing across Colorado today are the delayed consequence of decisions made years ago by politicians, educators, and cultural elites.
Tennessee Republicans watered down a bill that was initially designed to let public schools deny enrollment to illegal aliens, instead passing a version on Monday that lets schools ask for proof of legal presence but has no enforcement mechanism. Passed in a 70-25 vote, the substituted version of SB 836 requires “each [Local Education Agency] […]