12,000 students leave Broward schools as pandemic continues

Vania Sotolongo of Tamarac, teaches her son Oliver Tavarez, who is in kindergarten, and daughter Sabryna Tavarez, who is in second grade on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. After losing 10,000 students last year, Broward was expected to get some students back. Instead the opposite happened. (Carline Jean / South Florida Sun Sentinel)