Analysis: Media handwringing over homeless students downplays ‘implosion of California public-school education’

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  • Source: The Lion
  • 06/06/2025

“The lede was not that homelessness had increased,” the center’s vice president of government affairs and education policy told The Lion. “It was that our schools – for the seventh year straight – have lost upwards of 420,000 kids.”

This demographic disappearance of nearly half a million children foretells a systemic crisis for a state wrestling with high housing costs and schools failing to educate, Christensen argues. 

“We’re seeing the implosion of California public-school education in real time. And I don’t think the Legislature, the governor, superintendent of public instruction or any of the powers that be are really paying that much attention.” 

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