School leaders across the DMV region are having to make some tough choices as fewer students are enrolling in school, which often means less funding from the state.⁠ ⁠ The Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) superintendent told the school board last week their current enrollment is several thousand students less than they expected.⁠ ⁠ When FCPS started planning for the current school year, back in June, they had 176,000 students. But by the end of summer, enrollment had dropped to 172,000 students.⁠ ⁠ “We were off by several thousand students, which created a need to adjust in real time,” said Superintendent Michelle Reid to the board.⁠ ⁠ And by that, she meant not hiring as many people. Reid said FCPS is now starting a “workforce rebalancing committee” to look at how they can instead move staff around.⁠ ⁠ “If we have fewer students, we don’t want to continue hiring more staff,” she said. “I know last year we reassigned a number of assistant principals because we were overstaffed in s...