LAO: Cut subsidies for small districts
Study didn't find huge efficiencies in consolidation
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Forty percent of districts enroll fewer than 1,000 students (Click to enlarge LAO graph).
The Legislative Analyst’s Office is recommending that the Legislature stop giving thousands of extra dollars per student to small school districts and that it decertify the tiniest of them – those with fewer than 100 students. Enacting the combination of the two measures could spur more district consolidations.
With 40 percent of California’s nearly 1,000 districts serving fewer than 1,000 students, Californian has “an exceptional number” of small districts, the LAO said in a report** issued Monday. Nearly a quarter of the state’s districts have only one school. And one out of ten
