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Underachieving and Underenrolled: Chronically Low-Performing Schools in the Post-Pandemic Era

Sofoklis Goulas, Foreword by:  Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. and Michael J. Petrilli:

In Chicago, where 35 percent of seats are now unfilled, nearly three in five school buildings are underutilized.[3]

In Milwaukee, at least forty schools are “significantly underenrolled” (though that hasn’t stopped the district from requesting a 30 percent increase in property taxes).[4]

In Broward, sixty-seven schools are now operating at less than 70 percent capacity.[5]

The same can be said for forty-eight schools in Fort Worth.[6]