No mention of where these students have gone? Enrolled in private schools? Charter? Private home education? Families moved to more affordable areas and enrolled children there? Drop outs?
They did increase the pensions of those not working however so parents and working people are burden again at the expense of the non working.
Mainly families moving out of the districts, according to previous reports.
Multiple factors:
1. Massive decline in birthrate in area because of reduction in breeding couples.
2. Annoyed citizens taking their families, moving to free states.
3. Net loss of population - not enough people moving to SF to replace people leaving, most people moving to SF are gay and won't have children.
4. Given the stupidly high prices in SF/CA, would *you* want to have children and the expense that goes along with it? Far easier to just use birth control.
They don't exist. Fewer students enroll than graduate. Liberal reproduction rates are lower than conservatives'.
On the local TV, they said that SF has the lowest % of children of any major city in the US. They interviewed a SF native with children at the local playground. She said that there was a medical marijuana clinic a few doors to the right and a homeless shelter to the left. She was moving to the East Bay soon. Here in the east bay, there is still a housing boom. The city I live in was 23K in 1990, 32K in 2000 and may be about 60K in 2010.
Private schools in SF are also losing enrollment.
Mostly the recent declines come from low-income people, with or without kids, leaving for places like Richmond, Oakland, LA, or out of state.
Actually, for years San Francisco has had a decline in children population. The city is tailor-made for young adults who don't want children. Hence, the closing of schools.
D) All of the above
No mention of where these students have gone?
Part of the answer is less baby making and more baby killing.