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Ness Sandoval

Ness Sandoval

Sep 27, 2026

9:32
And some of them are closing.
9:34
Yeah, absolutely.
9:35
And there is significant fundraising happening to make tuition more affordable.
9:40
And so ultimately, the private market will dictate what happens to those private schools and alumni.
9:47
The public schools, though, have to be responsible to the taxpayers.
9:50
Right.
9:51
And the question will be, what are taxpayers willing to pay when you have school enrollment going down? What are these thresholds? that taxpayers are going to be comfortable with.

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17:06
So how do how does a region survive? with no babies coming up and an increase in the older population continuing for the next 20 years?
9:17
In Missouri or just in the United States, just all counties in the United States, two out of
9:21
three counties, about 67% of the counties have more people dying than babies born.
9:27
So that's a tidal wave coming.
9:29
And it's more than two-thirds in Missouri have more people dying than babies born.
9:33
So this is a very large macro trend that we're trying to educate people about.
9:40
Because when I hear a politician say, we're going to grow, my ears open up.
9:45
I'm like, how are you going to grow? Right.
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It

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