[alephnerd]

Not OP but if you're in the Bay Area a lot of that was because sales tax revenue collapsed during COVID.

School district budgets are heavily dependent on local taxes, which in turn are heavily dependent on sales tax.

Some districts have larger pockets than others due to a diverse tax base and thus were able to keep paying for those services in each school (eg. Palo Alto, Cupertino, MTV, the Tri-Valley districts) but others didn't have as deep pockets and as such had to cut down on programs and merge them.

[IG_Semmelweiss]

Looks like the start of a doom loop.

> ?? > No money in jurisdiction > Cut special Ed > Education quality takes a hit for all families > Some families move, taking their tax dollars with them > No money in jurisdiction

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[alephnerd]

Not really.

Sales Tax and Property Taxes recovered by 2022-23 in most counties within the Bay Area (excluding SF county which only represents 9-10% of the Bay's population) as RTO began being enforced, Asian and South American tourists returned (with some new countries now - lots of Thai and Argentine tourists now beyond the traditional SK/PRC/IN/HK tourists), and the spike in high value property sales refilled coffers.

That said, the 1-2 school years spent remotely will continue to have a statistical impact in the coming years.