No Hope for the Minneapolis Public Schools:
Recent Powerful Indicators of a District in Decline
The Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) constitute a school district in decline.
This stark reality has been demonstrated by a number of recent indicators, covered in this edition of Journal of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Article #1 details the 24 June 2025 Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education retreat in which members of the Board spent six and one-half hours without addressing the key vexations of the district.
Article #2 provides my recommendations of schools for closing or re-purposing and a discussion of the failure of Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams and the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education to address the issue of building usage.
Article #3 highlights misleading claims made by the Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams administration regarding Davis Center (central office) staff reductions as the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget of the Minneapolis Public Schools was finalized.
Article #4 explains why academic lightweights Ty Thompsen (deputy superintendent) and Melissa Sonnek (new senior academic officer) have no prospect for establishing a viable academic program at the Minneapolis Public Schools.
And Article #5 provides a communication from concerned citizen King Freeman regarding failure at the former KIPP Academy, lamenting that despite the reality that charter schools are typically even worse than the public schools, many parents desperately seek options to the Minneapolis Public Schools.
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The Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) constitute a school district in decline, a reality that will remain the case as long as Lisa Sayles-Adams serves as superintendent and the current membership of the MPS Board of Education abides; further, with the loss of major academic initiatives begun during the July 2022 through January 2024 tenure of Rochelle Cox, the damage incurred by the Minneapolis Public Schools will most likely endure for many decades and threaten the very existence of the district
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