Eating Randi Weingarten's Lunch

From Nellie Bowles, on Bari Weiss’s Substack, a succinct commentary on public education in America. With a special shout out to the teachers’ unions boss, Randi Weingarten:

Across the country, public schools are losing students en masse. New York City public enrollment is down by 64,000 since the pandemic started. Chicago Public Schools’ enrollment has plummeted by 25,000, or 7%, of students. San Francisco is in the same boat: the city’s lost 3,500 students and is facing a budget crisis as funding goes with them. Either playing hooky has gotten a lot more popular, or charter schools, private schools, homeschool collectives and parochial schools are eating Randi Weingarten’s lunch. What do all those have in common? They’re doing something radical: trying to stay open and educate children.