Documenters report: Minneapolis Public Schools has 1,000 fewer students than expected, braces for $13 million loss

MinnPost’s Twin Cities Documenters program trains and pays community members to take notes at local government meetings. Below are Documenter Al Zdon s summary and observations from the Oct. 27 meeting of the Minneapolis Board of Education. You can find Zdon s full notes here, which include links to the agenda. About this committee: The Minneapolis Board of Education, more commonly known as the Minneapolis school board, has a policy committee and a finance committee that meet monthly. These meetings are not recorded or livestreamed by the district. Any decisions taken at the committee level still need to be approved by the full board. Key outcomes: The board received an update that the district’s enrollment is down 650 students from last year. The district had planned on a gain of 300 students, so the total loss is nearly 1,000 students. This results in a loss of per-pupil funding from the state of about $12.9 million for this school year. The loss was attributed mainly