Of the 100 largest districts in 2007 - 08, only eight reported
overall enrollment declines from 1987 to 1997.
Not exact matches
At a time when Catholic
enrollments have been
declining and
overall private
enrollments are barely holding their own (Figures 1 and 2), Christian schools are booming.
Private school
enrollments have
declined overall in the past decade, but Catholic school
enrollments have
declined faster — and started
declining earlier.
Today, African American and Latino students rarely choose to become teachers; the
decline in minority numbers is actually steeper than the general
overall decline in education
enrollment!
The
overall result: since the recession hit at the end of 2007, revenue growth nationally has averaged only about 1.5 percent above inflation annually — far from enough to make up for
declining state support and rising student
enrollment.
Can school districts and charter schools co-exist, even cooperate, in cities with
overall declining student
enrollments?
«In future years, these barriers will be further exacerbated by
declining enrollment in rural districts and the
overall decrease in the number of college students entering teacher education programs,» the request said.
As those inside the district voice a repeated refrain that
declining enrollment will likely plunge LA Unified into bankruptcy, new data show it still attracted nearly the same number of kindergarten students last year as it had nine years earlier when it had 133,000 more students
overall.
Despite the
overall decline in
enrollment, «Let's not forget that over 300 Catholic schools have opened in the last decade,» Burnford said.
Potential factors behind the change include an
overall decline in
enrollment and the fact that undergraduate federal student loan borrowing limits have not increased for a decade.
Possibly part of the reason that the default rate has
declined is that the
overall enrollment in proprietary schools slightly decreased and sanctioning institutions with excessively high default rates from accepting federal loans as payment.