Enrollment plunges in Oakland schools - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

Enrollment plunges in Oakland schools - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

Enrollment plunges in Oakland schools

Thursday, November 1st, 2012 at 1:32 pm in 5 Comments »

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On the 20th day of school, Oakland’s district schools counted about 36,260 students. That’s 1,750 fewer kids than there were a year ago, a drop of 4.6 percent, according to 2012-13 enrollment figures recently released by OUSD.
Multiply that loss by $5,000, a rough estimate of general-purpose, per-student state funding (otherwise known as the revenue limit), and you are approaching $9 million. OUSD will have that much less to spend in 2013-14, in