This is still a problem that needs to be fixed, and 8.01 didn't completely fix it. Cities will just drop off with education after they get going. I have 6k+ possible students and I can only get 2k of them to school if i'm lucky, and in multiple cities. I have Mutiple schools, and buses, and extra mass transit and still the university and colleges are almost empty and the highschool is empty as well. Traffic is minimal. Only 200k pop, which is shrinking now. I can add the additional addon's to each school, but if I don't get more students when I do, its just wasted money.
You know, This game came out in March. 8 serious patch updates since then and the regional stuff still has issues and there are still serious issues with how the game functions and they are rolling out new content. Fix what you put out there in the first place before you roll out the new content. Seriously, who is going to want to buy new content for a game that doesn't function correctly. Get all your programmers to work on the current bugs instead of working on new content. This game should have been released a year later than is was scheduled to so it would be a half decent game. No one likes putting so much time into just one city seeing it fall apart because almost 8 months after the launch they still can't finish patching the game correctly. This could have been such an excellent game and now its still about as good as the Obama care website. I mean really, the Obama care website will be fixed in a few months, maybe..., and they will still be rolling out patches for the old content and new content in Simcity. You even have the President apologizing for it now on Main Stream News! People waited years for this release! EA you screwed this up so bad. I don't plan on buying anything else from EA until you get this game running like it should. I bet more than 3/4's of Sim Nation agrees. Rename the game and call it Obama City, or Sim Care, and there you go.