TC Weber explains that Nashville’s “lost student” problem also leads to a loss of funding.
Bottom line: MNPS is staring at $16–20 million in lost annual operating revenue from a six-week enrollment shift.
That is not chump change.
And here’s the part that often gets lost:
The fiscal pain is felt by schools, not Central Office.
Using the same baseline numbers, high schools alone account for roughly $10 million of that loss.
