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Demographer warns birthrate-driven enrollment decline; auditors give clean opinions with minor exceptions
Summary
King Consulting projected continued enrollment decline in RUSD driven by low birthrates; auditors reported unmodified opinions on the district financial statements and on Measure O performance, with one federal procurement exception and prior-year fraud matter already corrected.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — District consultants and external auditors presented two consequential reports Dec. 18: an enrollment projection showing a likely multi-year decline driven by falling local birthrates, and the district’s annual financial and Measure O performance audits.
Rob Murray of King Consulting told trustees that local births peaked in 2007 and that recent cohorts are smaller, producing a multi-year 'runway' of declining kindergarten cohorts and a…
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