Solutions for a Minneapolis Public Schools District in Decline (Enrollment and Educational Quality): Bring Back Rochelle Cox, Viably Promise to the Public a Knowledge-Intensive, Skill-Replete Education
If leaders at the Minneapolis Public
Schools were able to promise the knowledge-intensive, skill-replete,
post-secondary preparatory education, students and families would eagerly seek
enrollment in MPS schools for which secure learning environments are also
provided.
But MPS is embarrassingly devoid of
academicians capable of designing and implementing knowledge-intensive
curriculum. College, university, and
independent scholars should be engaged by the district to design the needed
post-secondary preparatory curriculum.
Failing to provide an education of
excellence in secure environments will find enrollment of the district of the
Minneapolis Public Schools declining to 25,000 by the year 2025, so that the
survival of MPS would be doubtful.
Officials at the Minneapolis Public Schools
must face their own academic deficiencies, seek the help they need, or
understand that some mix of ignorance and obstreperousness will mean that the
locally centralized school district in Minneapolis will cease to exist.
Students Enrollment
Figures for the Minneapolis Public Schools, 1937-2021
Year Number of
Students Enrolled
(nearest thousand)
1937 80,000
1941 67,000
1945 65,000
1949 63,000
1953 70,000
1957 72,000
1961 70,000
1965 73,000
1967 73,000
1969 72,000
1973 55,000
1977 40,000
1981 37,000
1985 40,000
1989 42,000
1993 45,000
1997 50,000
2000 50,000
2001 49,000
2005 35,000
2008 34,000
2009 37,000
2013 39,000
2015 40,000
2017 39,000
2019 34,000
2021 28,000
2025 29,000
Student enrollment figures for key junctures in the history of the
Minneapolis Public Schools are given as follows:
Year Number of
Students Enrolled
(nearest thousand)
1937 80,000
1967 73,000
1985 40,000
2000 50,000
2008 34,000
2015 40,000
2019 34,000
2025 29,000
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