New York Times – Shelly Banjo
“Despite predictions the recession would drive more parents to public schools, the number of children applying to private schools has held steady over the past few years, according to the Educational Records Bureau, the organization that administers the ERB admissions test. The ERB says 4,245 children took the test for the 2009-10 school year, the latest year for which data are available, down by about 200 from the year before but up from 3,899 in 2006.”(more)