{"id":143722,"date":"2026-01-21T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/143722\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:31:09","slug":"enrollment-declines-in-california-kalw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/143722\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrollment declines in California | KALW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across the state, K-12 public school enrollment has fallen 7%  in the last decade, with the biggest declines around the pandemic, according to state data.<\/p>\n<p>While the majority of districts have seen this drop, it\u2019s even more drastic in large coastal districts, like San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ppic.org\/publication\/californias-k-12-students\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new report<\/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California note that more students are choosing charter and home-school options.<\/p>\n<p>California funds K-12 schools based on average daily attendance (how many kids show up to class). But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalw.org\/kalw-news\/2026-01-14\/outcry-continues-over-proposed-sfusd-budget-cuts\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">school leaders are pushing<\/a> to change the calculation to an enrollment-based funding model.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of how that debate plays out, the state\u2019s student population is projected to continue to decline, posing ongoing challenges for California\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Across the state, K-12 public school enrollment has fallen 7% in the last decade, with the biggest declines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-143722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}