Enrollment in California’s community colleges is at its lowest in 30 years, after an 18 percent drop from pre-pandemic levels in 2019. The state’s 115 community colleges have lost about 340,000 students over the past three years, according to enrollment data released by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. Both the Los Angeles and San…
California Community College Enrollment Drops 18 Percent Since Pandemic
LA Unified Approves ‘Student-Focused’ $18.5 Billion Budget Amid Enrollment Decline, Teacher Shortage
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Alberto Carvalho earned unanimous support from the district’s Board of Education last week on both his 2022–23 budget of $18.5 billion and his long-term vision for K–12 schools in Los Angeles. The LAUSD—the largest school district in California—currently faces several challenges, such as student academic gaps brought on…
Orange County’s Largest School District Projects Declining Enrollment, Funding
The Capistrano Unified School District is calling on the state to increase its base rate of funding for its schools as it faces declining enrollment and a projected funding shortfall. The Capistrano Unified Board of Education projected enrollment would drop by 812 students from the current school year, putting the district at 41,942 for the…
LA Unified Enrollment to Drop 30 Percent by 2031
LOS ANGELES—Enrollment in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is expected to drop 30 percent in the next decade, forcing district officials to make a series of tough decisions on campus closures and employment. Student enrollment in LAUSD has been falling at a rate of about 2.8 percent per year since it hit its…
California Public School Enrollment Declines 5th Year in a Row
SACRAMENTO—California’s public school enrollment is on a steady decline for the fifth year in a row with about 110,000 fewer students amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the California Department of Education (CDE) announced on April 11. The state enrollment for the 2021–22 school year is about 5.89 million, down from 6 million in the previous year,…
Technological and Institutional Changes Needed for Bringing Students Back to Colleges: Under Secretary of Education
In the backdrop of persistent losses in enrollment numbers across the United States for undergraduate education, the country’s top official on higher education policy recently said that new technologies have to be deployed, and fundamental changes in institutional settings need to be made to encourage students to come back to colleges. “For one, enrollment has…
Technological, Institutional Changes Needed to Draw Students Back to Colleges: Undersecretary of Education
The top U.S. official on higher education policy said recently that new technologies have to be deployed and fundamental changes are needed in institutional settings to encourage students to come back to colleges amid persistent losses in undergraduate enrollment numbers. “For one, enrollment has fallen, instead of grown. So with enrollment down 700,000 students, we’re asking,…
Colleges Across the Country Report Fewer Undergraduate Enrollments: Clearinghouse
Undergraduate enrollment has gone down in U.S. universities, according to recent numbers released to an educational research center, with public two-year schools and private for-profit four-year schools seeing the biggest declines. Going into the second fall semester since the pandemic, there has been a decrease of 2.6 percent in postsecondary enrollment, a 3.5 percent reduction…
Los Angeles Schools’ Enrollment Falls By 27,216 Students in 2021
LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has seen a nearly 6 percent drop in enrollment this year, it was reported Sept. 28. The district has 439,013 students in preschool through 12th grade, compared to 466,229 last year at this time, according to the Los Angeles Times, which cited an annual count known as…
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