“Nobody’s making up these numbers. You can go into classrooms and go, ‘Wow. We used to have 700 students in this school. Now we have 300.’”
— Jose Espinoza
— Jose Espinoza
Superintendent, South Bay Union School District, in a story about declining enrollment in San Diego County schools, which have lost 27,000 students over the last decade. (Voice of San Diego, July 15, 2025)
“AB 218 created an overdue pathway to justice, but it did so without guardrails.”
— Andy Sheaffer
— Andy Sheaffer
Vice president of the board, Carpinteria Unified School District, in a commentary on the impacts sexual abuse settlements from decades ago are having on current school district finances. (EdSource, July 21, 2025)
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