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[quote=Anonymous]I live in one of the top 5 districts in Texas. We are indeed having to lay off teachers. As someone else speculated, yes, we are getting rid of the portables too.

The layoffs are primarily happening at the elementary level. They are consolidating 3 elementary schools into 2.

There is a bunch of stuff about how schools are funded in Texas that is causing this, but that probably isn't that interesting to DCUMers. Aside from that:
1. More parents are opting for home schooling or private. This year elementary attendance is down 16%.

2. Popular school districts tend to have more expensive housing. As housing values have exploded, fewer young families can move into the district. Our population is increasing at the higher grades, but that brings a different set of challenges when we historically have had most students go K - 12 in the district.

This was a direction things were going on thr housing values anyway, but the school board thought it would be another 5 years before it became an issue. COVID significantly ramped things up. Parents are losing their minds about it. [/quote]

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