Introductory Comments
Minneapolis
Public Schools Davis Center (Central Office) Staff by Position and Salary
In the
articles immediately following this introduction, readers will find a listing
of all Minneapolis Public Schools Davis Center (Central Office) staff members
by position and salary.
Staff
members at the Davis Center total 568 (five hundred sixty-eight) by my current
calculation; sixteen additional staff
members may occupy positions at the Davis Center; if so, this would bring the figure to
584; but as I clarify the actual figure,
I am proceeding with the figure of 568 (five hundred sixty-eight) as reference
for most of the comments and data that I provide in this series.
The
figure of 568 would be a reduction of 26 (twenty-six) staff members from the
figure of 594 (five hundred ninety-four) that prevailed eight months ago, in
September 2024; this would calculate to
a 4.38% reduction. The figure of 584
would be a reduction of 10 (ten) staff members from the figure of 594 (five
hundred ninety-four) that prevailed eight months ago, in September 2024; this would calculate to a 1.68% reduction.
Both
figures (4.38% and 1.68%) would be far short of the 14.22% reduction claimed in
the FY 26 Budget document presented by Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent
Lisa Sayles-Adams and staff at the 22 April 2025 Committee of the Whole meeting
of Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education.
The claim
in that document is that “Staff based at the Davis Center are being reduced by
14.22%” for fiscal year 2026. If the
latter claim is valid, further cuts will be made in staff by comparison to the
mid-April figures on which the current series is based.
But then,
the administration of Lisa Sayles-Adams has had difficulty stating clearly and
definitively the percentage reductions that have actually occurred:
A figure
of 11.74% was given in the key document at the 13 May Regular Business Meeting
of the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education; and on that very evening a high-ranking staff
member stated that the figure pertinent to Davis Center staff reductions as
Budget FY26 (the district budget of fiscal year 2026) would be 13.8%.
And then
there is the matter the basis for that 13.8% reductions.
District
officials give appearance of deception in the provision of these figures:
Data that
I received upon request indicates that the 13.8% figure is not based on
reduction of staff actually working at the Davis Center but rather on FTE
(Full-Time Equivalencies) assigned to the Davis Center as of 14 April 2025--- meaning the maximum number that could be
hired as staff--- and the FTEs projected
to be assigned to the Davis Center when Budget FY26 is finalized in June
2025. With the figure of 678.8521 FTE on
14 April 2025, reduced to 585.3092 FTE by the time
Budget FY26 is finalized in June, this would calculate to a 13.78% (rounded to
13.8%) reduction.
Understand, then that the
administration of Lisa Sayles-Adams has been highly deceptive in statements to
the public and to the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education:
At no time in the course of my eleven
year investigation into the inner workings of the Minneapolis Public Schools have
there been 679 staff members actually working at the Davis Center; the figure has tended to hover just above or
just below 600 staff members.
The figure for actual employee FTE (as
opposed to assigned FTE) on 14 April 2025 was 607.015 FTE.
On 13 May 2025 the comparable figure
was 606.015 FTE.
This would mean that as the budget was
being finalized there has been a reduction of only one (1) FTE; in percentage terms this would be a
negligible 00.16% (far under even one percent [1.00%]).
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For the
purposes of this edition of Journal o the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis,
Minnesota, I am using the 568 figure that I have securely determined to be
the minimum number of staff members working at the Davis Center each day that
all staff are present.
The 568
five hundred sixty-eight) Davis staff members are given by category of salary
received, as follows.
Over
$200,000
6
(six) staff members
$180,000
to $200,000
4
(four) staff members
$145,000
to $170,000
14
(fourteen) staff members
$125,000
to $145,000
32
(thirty-two) staff members
$100,000
to $125,000
116
(fourteen) staff members
$90,000
to $100,000
55
(fifty-five) staff members
$80,000
to $90,000
75
(seventy-five) staff members
$70,000
to $80,000
86
(eighty-six) staff members
$60,000
to $70,000
28
(twenty-eight) staff members
$50,000
to $60,000
71
(seventy-one) staff members
$40,000
to $50,000
64
(sixty-four) staff members
$30,000
to $40,000
8
(eight) staff members
$20,000
to $30,000
7
(seven) staff members
Under
$20,000
2
(two) staff members
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Total >>>>> 568 (five hundred sixty-eight) staff members
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