> At the same time, some families are leaving their local public schools not because they are abandoning the system altogether but because they have moved to ot

> At the same time, some families are leaving their local public schools not because they are abandoning the system altogether but because they have moved to other parts of the country that are more affordable. > Rendered homeless in late 2020, [three children] had struggled for months to keep up academically, shuffling for almost a year between motels, relatives and Ms. Parish’s 1997 Honda before they quietly stopped attending school entirely.