Houston ISD says school closures could be coming due to declining enrollment, budget deficits
James DeAnda Elementary School student Dulce Rangel-Rodriguez working on classwork Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Houston. Children at Risk's annual rankings labeled them as"pandemic" proof for earning A and B accountability ratings for three years in a row while also serving high rates of economically disadvantaged students.
“Over time, we’re spending more money on fixed costs, like building and utilities, than individual students,” Superintendent Millard House II said. “The stat that always sticks out to me is that the last time we were at this particular enrollment where we are right now was 1984.” Financial woes are compounded by the declinitrying to get HISD ready for ARng enrollment and increasing number of campuses qualifying for the district's small school subsidies, which were designed to help schools with low enrollment. HISD currently spends about $36 million on those, he said. However, critics say that small school subsidies were only a sliver of the deficit and ESSER funds were never meant to be long term or supplant regular funding.
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