LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Clark County School District published a draft report that lists possible renovations, consolidations, and closures of schools due to a decline in enrollment.
The district’s facility master plan report is called Building Brighter Futures. CCSD said it is projecting an enrollment loss of between 27,000 and 33,000 students in the next five years.
Superintendent Jhone Ebert has previously said a low nationwide birth rate has led to fewer students attending CCSD, which is the nation’s fifth-largest school district.
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CCSD is developing plans to address the decline and the impact it will have on funding. David Gomez sat in on some of the facility master plan meetings.
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“The problem that I see is that they’re not citing where they’re getting this information from,” Gomez said. “People that are sitting in these administrative positions that are projecting these numbers are not telling us, even in our own [facility master plan] meetings, where they’re getting these numbers from.”…