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Cyber‑charter enrollment and new tuition rates lower district costs by roughly $568K in draft budget
Summary
Finance staff told the board cyber‑charter tuition and lower enrollment would reduce costs from about $4.8 million in 2025–26 to roughly $4.2 million in 2026–27, a savings district staff estimated at nearly $600,000.
Mrs. Lent told the committee that changes to cyber‑charter tuition rates and falling cyber enrollment are producing a material reduction in projected tuition payments to outside cyber providers. “we are going from in the current year 4.8 million down to a projected almost 4.2 million. So that's almost a $600,000 savings,” she said, attributing most of the savings to fewer students enrolled in cyber charter and rate adjustments.
The presenter explained the district now separates tuition rates into four categories (brick‑and‑mortar vs. cyber and special‑education vs. non‑special categories), which made year‑to‑year comparisons more precise. Board members noted the savings materially reduce the district’s projected deficit and asked for further breakdowns of who is moving into and out of cyber enrollment to assess staffing implications.
