There is something strange and interesting happening with the growing demographic changes in America. We’ve written about the upcoming “boomerpocalypse” whereby society changes in many different ways due to lack of labor but what is happening now?
We’ve been reading articles all across America about a growing trend of school consolidations. Let’s take a look at some articles (links included).
In the pacific northwest the Bellevue school board is planning on school consolidation. The core issue is loss of H1B visa students not returning and housing affordability for those school zones.
In California, there are planned consolidations going on there as well. Gold Country Media reports
There are only a few more public meetings before the Auburn Union School District Board of Trustees are scheduled to decide how to consolidate their district from five schools to three next week.
The district is preparing for its second year of deep cuts after the Placer County Office of Education required the district define cuts in a Fiscal Recovery Plan last year. The Fiscal Recovery Plan addressed the district’s $3 million budget shortfall, spreading the cuts over two school years.
Gold Country Media
On the other end of the country in Hull, Massachusetts, The Hull Times reports on school consolidations there.
The school committee this week voted 4 to 1 in favor of taking the first step toward consolidating Hull’s three schools – housing Pre-K through 6 at Jacobs Elementary School, grades 7 and 8 at Memorial Middle School, and grades 9 through 12 at the high school – for the 2023-24 school year as proposed by Superintendent of Schools Judith Kuehn.
The Hull Times
There are many other articles in various parts of the country about school consolidation or bus route consolidation all largely driven by labor shortages and demographic changes in society.
There are profits to be made somewhere with these changes and we’ll keep researching the trends to reap some profits. Stay tuned, stay profitable and stay solvent…