Will it continue to expand? This article makes the case that the large increase in 2020 was driven by temporary pandemic conditions, and explicitly not by polit

Will it continue to expand? This article makes the case that the large increase in 2020 was driven by temporary pandemic conditions, and explicitly not by politics or school quality. The graph shows it has already started to decline. Longer-term data shows a small peak in 2012 followed by a slow decline until the pandemic: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_206.10.asp https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_206.10.a.... In the article's district lookup tool, most districts follow this same pattern of a pandemic spike that begins to decline, whether you pick a stereotypically liberal or conservative district.