COVID-19 wipes out 10-year progress in increasing preschool enrollment in U.S.: report

LOS ANGELES, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 pandemic wiped out a decade of progress in increasing preschool enrollment in the United States, resulting in a nearly 20 percent decline in enrollment in a single year, said a report of U.S. News & World Report.

According to the 2021 State of Preschool report, published Tuesday by the U.S. National Institute for Early Education Research, enrollment in state-funded preschool dropped for the first time in 20 years during the 2020-2021 school year, erasing a decade of growth and resulting in a decline of nearly 20 percent, or 300,000 children, in a single year.