Can future funding be reduced?
The only reason a district can lose state aid is if its enrollment goes down by more than 5 percent cumulatively, based on 2008-2009 figures. Furthermore, that reduction in aid will be limited to the difference in percentage between the actual enrollment decline and 5 percent, and would be applied to 2008-2009 “adjustment aid” only. For example, let’s say a district suffers a 2 percent decline in enrollment in 2009-2010, followed by a 3 percent decline in 2010-2011. That’s a total of 5 percent. It would suffer no loss in adjustment aid. But let’s say in the next year, it loses another 2 percent of students. That’s a total of 7 percent, so the district would see a reduction of 2 percent in its adjustment aid (not its total aid).
