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Episode: Melodee Buzzard & The Great Vanishing: How California Lost 150,000 Kids-WEEK IN REVIEW
Description: Melodee Buzzard’s disappearance isn’t an anomaly — it’s the warning sign of a statewide collapse.Between 2019 and 2022, California’s public-school rolls dropped by 270,000 students.Roughly 150,000 of them remain unaccounted for in any school, private affidavit, or relocation record.They didn’t all move — many simply vanished from the data, the same way Melodee vanished from oversight.In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski and the panel connect the dots between one missing-child case and the larger crisis of invisible minors.We’ll analyze state education reports, CPS workload numbers, and how “independent...