Dana Bacon wrote: "I found that Minneapolis spent $10,226 per pupil in 2000. Did our per-pupil expenditures increase by $6,000 over the past two years? If not, I'd like to know how 7,450 plus 9,000 equals 10,226."
Vicky replies: The $17,000 per student figure in Minneapolis (2002) came from School Board candidate and Listmember Doug Mann. There was quite a bit of discussion on this list about the subject prior to the elections. The St. Paul Pioneer Press published the figure at $14,000 for the 2001 school year. Doug's Reply to Dana and to Vicky's reply to Dana It appears that $10,226 per student is what you get if you divide the 2002 *operating budget* of $471 million dollars by 46,037 students (fall of 2001?). The total budget for 2002 was $664.5 million / $14,434 per student. I don't know if we are talking about the actual or projected budget for 2002 or when the fiscal year begins and ends. The report on the web site is dated 2001, presumably December 2001. The school board usually gets a big year-end financial report in December. That's where I got some budget information that wasn't otherwise available to the general public the last time that we had this discussion. The Strib's figure of $600 million for the 2002 budget reported last year is probably off by about $55 to 65 million. As I pointed out (in a post to the mpls list), the MPS announced cuts that were probably cuts from a projected budget, not a cut by comparison to the 2001 budget. It is likely that the Strib subtracted something like $35 to 55 million from the 2001 budget rather than from the projected 2002 budget, which was closer to $700 million at one point (as far as I recall). The financial situation wouldn't have looked so bleak if the real budget figures were revealed at that time. The figure of $17,000 per student per year cited by Vicky didn't come from me. Thank you Terrell Brown for feeding us the following web site addresses: > 46,037 students (from the MN Dept of CFL) > http://cfl.state.mn.us/datactr/enroll/GED0203.xls > > The District's budget for fiscal year 2002 is $664.5 million (from MPS) > http://www.mpls.k12.mn.us/about/report_2001/challenges_progress.shtml I couldn't download the data from the state due to a corrupted file that I was trying to download. -Doug Mann, King Field http://educationright.tripod.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
