Faced with declining student enrollment and perceptions of troubling academic underachievement, Bolinas-Stinson Union School District officials are discussing combining grades to free up time for a few teachers to act as roaming academic specialists described by the district’s principal, Jason Richardson, as “teachers on special assignment.”
Enrollment this year of the district’s kindergarten through eighth grade students is 100, down from 119 in 2012, and it is expected to fall further next year. The small…