Headcounts are down at public schools. Now budgets are too.

FILE — Joy Harrison instructs her second graders at Carl B. Munck Elementary School, in Oakland, Calif,, Aug. 11, 2021. Oakland is closing seven schools. MISSION, Kan. — A school system in suburban Kansas City is eliminating over 100 jobs, including kindergarten aides and library clerks. Oakland, California, is closing seven schools. Other districts around the country are merging classrooms, selling buildings and leaving teaching positions unfilled in order to close budget gaps.

Now it is trimming millions of dollars from its budgets because enrollment, having peaked at more than 30,000 students in fall 2019, fell by around 900 in the first full school year of the pandemic. Less than 100 of those students have returned. More districts will be making cuts in coming years, said Alex Spurrier, an associate partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a think tank. The last of the federal aid must be spent by 2024.

“That might sound crazy,” the district wrote in a blog post, acknowledging the influx of federal aid. But it explained that enrollment declines have accelerated amid the pandemic, with the student population falling to 73,000 from 85,000 in just six years. The district hasn’t released a cost-cutting plan but legislative analysts say it will require layoffs and school closures.

School officials in the city of Lawrence — home to the main University of Kansas campus — are creating multi-grade level elementary classrooms, which will allow the district to get by with fewer teachers. It is part of an effort to close a budget shortfall brought on by declining enrollment and to free up money for raises.

Yet taxes collected for public education is increasing.. Makes one wonder where that money is going.

Overpaid teachers have been a problem for years. They work just 9 months a year but demand very high salaries. Many are left wing pieces of do do pedophiles that use our children as a tool to get pay increases

Coronavirus pandemic lol😂👍

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