HBCSD Corruption

The Changing Information:

Six months after the district’s $59M facilities bond passed in June 2016, Decision Insite’s changed their May 2015 Enrollment Projections from 1,543 students in 2019 to that of only 1,234 students in 2019.

(1)         Voters used Decision Insite May 2015 enrollment projections of a significant INCREASE in enrollment to inform their vote.  School board members did not provide an updated enrollment report before the June 2016 $59M bond vote.

(2)         Only Six months after the district’s $59M facilities bond passed in June 2016, Decision Insite’s changed their May 2015 Enrollment Projections from 1,543 students in 2019 to that of only 1,234 students in 2019.   DI changed their enrollment prediction to a 309 student DECLINE in HBCSD by September 2019 from the May 2015 enrollment projections.  See Decision Insite enrollment report 5 Year Projections for May 2015 and November 2016.   

(3)         One year after Decision Insite’s November 2016 projected a significant decrease in K-8th grade enrollment at HBCSD, the Easy Reader addressed the issue in an article entitled Study projects enrollment decline for school district in coming years, on December 22, 2017.  

In the article Decision Insite senior vice president Dean Waldfogel was quoted as saying that he was aware of only one [school] district in the [entire] State [of California] forecasted to have enrollment gains in the coming years.  Did all of California have a sudden inexplicable drop in enrollment after HBCSD’s June 2016 facilities bond passed?   If Dean Waldfogel was aware of only one school district forecasted to have enrollment gains in the coming years, how and why did Decision Insite predict that enrollment was rising in Hermosa Beach in its May 2015 Enrollment Report?