Minneapolis plans to close up to 16 schools. The board votes Nov 10.
The problem isn't one school. It's the plan.
- 3 of 9 board members face no voters for this decision.
- The board's own required cost/benefit analysis doesn't exist.
- Closing schools elsewhere hasn't fixed a budget like this one.
- Even the district's own deputy superintendent admits closures aren't "a huge cost savings" — 3:13 in the recording.
Stop the Nov 10 vote. Wait for the newly elected board and for published goals to fix the budget.
Five of nine board seats are on the Nov 3 ballot. New members take office in January 2027. As it stands, the outgoing board would decide the future of 14 schools one week after the election, with no published savings figure for any of them.
Three things the district has not answered.
Every figure below comes from the district's own presentation, resolution or recording. Follow any of them to the source.
No one has said what closing your school saves.
Resolution 2025-0045 required a cost/benefit analysis before this vote. It does not exist. The only dollar figure anywhere in the 118 slides is $560,000 to $705,000 a year in utility savings, against a $39.7 million shortfall.
"It's not something that's like a huge cost savings... that hasn't been the intent."
Deputy Superintendent Ty Thompson, asked how much of the deficit the closures solve.
The district's own map says these buildings are big enough.
Slide 6 codes every building red, orange or green. Slide 25 says only buildings without a large enough footprint get merged. Then the plan closes 9 orange buildings, which the district itself defines as large enough for the MPS student experience.
The board taking this vote is on its way out.
Five of nine board seats are on the Nov 3 ballot and the new members take office in January 2027. Three of the nine members voting face no voters for this decision at all. As it stands, the outgoing board decides the future of 14 schools one week after the election.
And closing schools elsewhere has not fixed a budget like this one. What happened after the 2020 redesign →
How to be heard before Oct 16
Three ways to reach the people making this decision, in the order they carry weight. The board sees a first feedback report Oct 20.
Key dates
Go deeper
Every section of this site, in the order it makes sense to read it.
The timing, the missing analysis, and the district's own track record.
What the plan does to your school under each option.
Nine problems in the 118-slide presentation, with slide numbers.
What the district is proposing, every board question, and what was said off the slides.
Nine board members, how they voted, how to reach them.
The survey, the meetings, the board, and what to say.
Every source, summarized.
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