California froze funding to its school districts at pre-pandemic enrollment — a help to most schools, but not for those gaining students.
, an advocacy group representing these districts, estimate that 169 school districts, mostly small and rural, weren’t funded for all their students last school year.
By the end of the 2019-20 school year, Wheatland Union High had about 900 students. The following school year, it grew to 932 students, a 4% increase. Meanwhile, public school enrollment statewide decreased by 3% that first year of the pandemic. Wheatland Union High's Newman is still hoping to get the $385,000 dollars her district should have received last year.
“We need every dollar we can get to support our students,” he said. “All we’re asking for is the funds that were not paid during that anomaly.”
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