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Board weighs options after Cornell study projects about 1,000 fewer students over 10 years
Summary
The Ithaca City School District board discussed a Cornell enrollment study projecting roughly 1,000 fewer students over the next decade and debated follow-up analyses, fiscal implications and a draft strategic-planning RFP to guide long-term decisions about facilities, staffing and programming.
The Ithaca City School District Board of Education on Feb. 10 discussed next steps after a Cornell demography study that projects the district could have roughly 1,000 fewer students over the next 10 years.
Chair (speaker 2) summarized the study’s headline finding: "the next 10 years, we expect under different projections, we expect to see roughly 1000 fewer students in this district." Board members said they want additional scenarios, including 15-year runs, facility-specific analyses and fiscal modeling before making policy or capital decisions.
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