Vicki Heller has her facts straight. Your information on the budget and student enrollment is out of date (2000-2001 figures). The district's revenue for this year is about $700 million, despite the fact that Student enrollment has decrease by a few thousand since the 2000-2001 school year (the district expected most of this loss of 'market share' to the private schools and suburban public schools.
I have no idea how the district came up with the figure of $9,692 per pupil spending for the 2000-2001 school year. Total spending ($662,683,442) divided by number of students (49,445) equals $13,402 and change. Contrary to what you may have heard from the district, revenues for the MPS have increased, despite falling enrollments. On top of the elimination of positions for teachers and support staff resulting from falling enrollment, the district is cutting about $30 million for non-management payroll, transportation, etc and is planning to increase the administrative budget by about the same amount. -Doug Mann, kingfield, new 8th ward Mann for school board committee http://educationright.tripod.com In a message dated 9/12/2002 6:13:36 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Victoria Heller wrote: [snip] Subject: [Mpls] MSP Update: $14,000 per student per year ($700 million annually).... Student Enrollment* PreKindergarten 399 High Five/Kindergarten 4,334 Grades 1-5 20,155 Grades 6-8 10,766 Grades 9-12 13,791 Total 49,445 *Does not include charter school enrollment. [snip] Directly from the Mpls Public Schools website for the 2000 - 2001 school year Budget (2000-01) General Fund $422,274,672 Referendum Fund 40,488,077 Food Services 16,759,236 Community Education 16,390,097 Building Construction 77,600,000 Debt 47,222,404 Other 41,948,956 Total 662,683,442 Per Pupil Spending $9,692 State per pupil $6,695 > _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
