Pandemic Leads Many Students to Change Schools

Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs and Professor, Economics and Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School, was interviewed by EdSurge, “School Is Hard for Mobile Students. These Districts Want to Help.”

The Five District Partnership, which works to ease the transition for students changing schools, was introduced in 2012 but has become increasingly more impactful as the pandemic causes many families to relocate, forcing students to attend new schools. Schwartz says, “Not all mobility is bad. Sometimes kids move to be closer to family, or because a parent got a better job.” She continues by saying, “It’s not like kids are moving from Boston to Chicago to L.A. and then back again. Kids for whom housing instability is a problem, many of them are moving around in the same urban area.”