<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3JGOhW_1GzvGnr900" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3JGOhW_1GzvGnr900" width="1200" height="600" >What This Story Is About<ul><li>Enrollment is declining in the Sumner County School District, and they may have to cut staff positions to make up for the loss in funding.</li></ul>Why It Matters<ul><li>The drop in enrollment means the district could lose more than $11 million in state funding, and Director of Schools Scott Langford says they’re starting to look at potential staff cuts to make up for it, but they’re not rushing.</li></ul><ul><li>They plan to have a better picture of what the cuts will look like by the end of this year or early next year.</li></ul>SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. (WSMV) - Enrollment is declining in the Sumner County School District, and they may have to cut staff positions to make up for the loss in funding.Director of Schools Scott Langford made the announcement at Tuesday night’s school board meeting.According to Langford, the district has lost more than 1,700 students since August.He says the majority of those students went to other public school districts in Tennessee or left the state altogether, which could point to the rising cost of living in Sumner County as a reason behind the drop.But he also said a little over one third of the students who have left the district this school year went to online school, homeschool or private schools.The drop in enrollment means the district could lose more than $11 million in state funding, and Langford says they’re starting to look at potential staff cuts to make up for it, but they’re not rushing.“That’s the start of a long process because it’s going to take time,” Langford said. “We’re not gonna show up and say, ‘You need to lose this number of positions, who is it?’ We’re taking our time to get it right.”Langford says the district hopes to catch as many of the necessary job cuts as possible through attrition, staff leaving on their own for retirement or jobs in other districts.He also says they hope to be able to move some staff into different positions in the district.The cuts could also mean the district has to increase class sizes, although Langford says they’re still hoping to keep them below the state caps.“We made a decision that a value of ours was to keep class sizes as small as possible because we think that’s best for kids,” Langford said. “But that requires an investment of funding that, if we don’t have, we have to make adjustments to.”Langford also said the district is looking at ways to strengthen enrollment and funding to help avoid cuts in the future.He says they plan to have a better picture of what the cuts will look like by the end of this year or early next year.</div></body>

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Enrollment is declining in the Sumner County School District, and they may have to cut staff positions to make up for the loss in funding. The drop in enrollment means the district could lose more than $11 million in state funding, and Director of Schools Scott Langford says they’re starting to look at potential staff cuts to make up for it, but they’re not rushing.

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Enrollment is declining in the Sumner County School District, and they may have to cut staff positions to make up for the loss in funding. The drop in enro

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