But the savings will be smaller
if enrollment drops on its own and if the new farm law is not passed soon.
Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years
as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.
Those efforts — a key Bowser priority — have had middling success: Between fall 2015 and fall 2016, DCPS middle
school enrollment dropped by nearly 400 students, while the city's charters saw nearly equivalent growth.
Detroit, for example, watched its
district enrollment drop from 292,934 in 1970 to less than 50,000 students in 2014, while St. Louis shrank from 113,484 pupils to a paltry 27,017.
The Cougars were the top seed in the bracket and had been singled out as favorites early in the year after a dip
in enrollment dropped them down from Division I.
In the seven years prior to when Catholic leaders decided to close and reopen their schools as charters,
average enrollment dropped from 299 students to 153 students.
Enrollment shifts are certainly part of the landscape, and at any given time just as many or more districts may be
facing enrollment drops as are seeing enrollment gains.
But actually, California Department of Education data show a drop of considerably less:
McKinley enrollment dropped 12.9 % when the charter opened — from 426 students to 371.
But Education Post network member Kyle Westbrook recently noted that Illinois colleges and universities — both two - and four - year — saw African -
American enrollment drop 25 percent between 2011 and 2015.
Hancock
County enrollment dropped 5.3 % from 2009 to 2010; the district was flexible enough that it was able to reduce the number of teachers 8.8 % and administrators by 18.8 %.
In the past decade,
LAUSD enrollment dropped by 194,251 students and charter school enrollment increased by 106,710 students, according to state figures.
Many switched their schedules as a way to save money, trying to keep rural schools open
while enrollments drop and job opportunities lag in some places.
The island has seen its
school enrollment drop 42 percent in the past three decades, and an additional 22 percent drop is expected in coming years, according to a consultant's study conducted to help restructure Puerto Rico's education system.
At Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, long an emblem of educational dysfunction,
enrollment dropped by a whopping 47 %, from 648 students in 2014 - 2015 to to 343 students in 2015 - 2016.
That's likely part of the reason that
enrollment dropped, as Americans making more than 400 % of the Federal Poverty Level (about $ 48,000 for an individual or $ 98,000 for a family of four) wouldn't be shielded from those rising premiums because they don't qualify for federal subsidies that lower - income citizens do.
Otherwise, they may just see
their enrollment drop too.
NORTH COLLINS, N.Y. — Nine school districts in Erie County have seen
their enrollment drop by at least 11 percent in the past decade.
Districts have cut everything from teachers to science kits as expenses continue to rise and
enrollment drops.
More than half the districts (347) expect to educate fewer students in 2018 - 19 than the current school year, with 19 districts forecasting
an enrollment drop of more than 5 percent.
Enrollment dropped and the school faltered.
But as districts have seen their budgets squeezed and their enrollments fall — California's
enrollment dropped 2 percent between 2003 and 2010, and about half its districts are losing enrollment — many have become reluctant to let children go.
And Nickell's Las Animas district was really hurt after it lost the state prison — because workers left and school
enrollment dropped.
Under the law, school districts are not required to «force» place veteran teachers who lose their jobs because of budget cuts,
enrollment drops, or the turnaround process at low performing schools.
The enrollment drop was significantly worse for religious schools.
After the conversion to a full - time program,
enrollment dropped to under 400,000 by the early 1970s.
If
its enrollment dropped for any reason (including, for example, if parents decided to home - school their child), a public school would receive less money, but it would also have fewer expenses.
Saginaw's
enrollment dropped 21 percent, from 8,697 in 2009 - 10 to 6,855 in 2014 - 15.
However, students can also choose to defer payments, meaning that monthly payments are not required until six months after they graduate or if
their enrollment drops below half - time.
Even the University of Phoenix, perhaps the most well - known in this category, has seen
its enrollment drop by 50 % in five years.
Borrowers who take out federal student loans for graduate school are not required to begin making payments until they graduate or
their enrollment drops below half time.