Sedona Red Rock News
For more than a decade, enrollment within the Sedona-Oak Creek School District has been on the decline.
While some of that is out of its hands, the district is not throwing in the towel and accepting defeat.
With an unexpected decline in students this year and an anticipated loss of 45 students next year, the district and its Governing Board are looking at ways to not only attract new students but maintain the ones they have.
While the district is aware of the potential number of students they are expected to lose usually as a result of smaller kindergarten classes each year they are now in the process of recruiting new students. One way is via a video the district is in the processes of producing that’s expected to be out this spring.
Sedona Red Rock News
The Sedona-Oak Creek School District, like all schools across the country, has faced challenges this past year as a result of COVID-19 closures, mitigation and remote
instruction. Part of that challenge has been dealing with an unexpected decrease in
students leaving districts as a result of the pandemic. Photo by David Jolkovski/Larson Newspapers
To say this past year has been a challenging one for teachers and students would be an understatement.
With the COVID-19 pandemic has come plenty of uncertainty, but Sedona- Oak Creek School District leaders feel they have a good handle on the rest of this school year as they now look forward to the 2021- 2022 school year. The first step in looking to next year took place last week during a workshop in which the budget was reviewed but no action was taken.
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Monthly premiums for health insurance coverage through Illinois’ online marketplace are trending downward for the third year in a row as the midnight Tuesday deadline approaches for the federal Affordable Care Act’s open-enrollment period.
It’s unclear whether the national recession and rise in unemployment connected with the COVID-19 pandemic will interrupt the four-year decline in enrollment by Illinoisans in federally subsidized and unsubsidized coverage on HealthCare.gov.
But a snapshot of signups from this point in the open-enrollment period compared to a similar point last year shows a 3.3% increase in daily average signups in Illinois, according to Stephani Becker, associate director for health care justice at the Chicago-based Shriver Center on Poverty Law.