In spring 2025, the Lisa Sayles-Adams administration gave various figures were given at certain junctures as to staff reductions at the Davis Center (Minneapolis Public Schools Central Offices).
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1) 14.22%, made in a document presented at the
22 April 2025 MPS Board of Education Committee of the Whole;
2) 11.74%, made in a document presented at the 13
May 2025 regular business meeting of the MPS Board of Education;
and
3) and 13.8%, remarkably made by Ryan Strack at
that very same 13 May 2025 MPS Board of Education regular business
meeting--- and reiterated in personal
communications to me by Strack and Kimberly Haynes.
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>>>>> In addition to the conflicting claims as to
percentage of staff cuts, there is the matter of the figures not actually being
made on the basis of Davis Center employee staff cuts at all, but rather on the
basis of the number of FTEs (Full Time Equivalencies) assigned to the Davis
Center.
Thus, the
Sayles-Adams administration gives appearance of misleading the public as to
staff reductions at the Davis Center.
Consider
these figures pertinent to actual staff reductions; additionally, note median salary and total
staffing expenditure information >>>>>
Davis
Center Staffing Information
April
2025
594
total staff
$81,259
median salary
$50,020,384
total staffing expenditure
May
2025
584
total staff
$83,291
median salary
$48,341,612
total staffing expenditure
July
2025
545
total staff
$85,372
median salary
$48,864,041
total staffing expenditure
Sept.
2025
576
total staff
$85,420
median salary
$51,693,770
total staffing expenditure
May
2026
580
total staff
$87,507
median salary
$50,221,551
total staffing expenditure
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An
examination of these figures indicate that actual staffing reductions from a
high in April 2025 of 594 staff members to the most recent figures as represented
for May 2026 of 580 staff members reveals a reduction of only 14 staff members
for a percentage reduction of 2.37% (two and thirty-seven hundredths percent.
In the
course of spring 2026, Minneapolis Public Schools Senior Executive Officer Ryan
Strack has continued to claim, more vaguely that a concerted effort has been
made to reduce central office staff so as to fully staff “student-facing”
positions at school building sites as much as possible.
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As with
the deceptive claims made in spring 2025, these statements on the part of Strack
belie the facts >>>>>
>>>>> Staffing at the Davis center has been
essentially flat, at most a reduction of two percent (2%), with the figure as
of May 2026 revealed as 580 staff members.
>>>>> The median salary for staff members at the Davis
Center increased from $81,259 in April 2025 to $87,507.
>>>>> Total figures for salary expenditure at the Davis
center was $50,221, 551 clsoe to the all-time high of $51,693,770 recorded in
September 2025.
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The
public should be aware, then that the central office burden is heavy, at a time when the district of the Minneapolis
Public Schools confronts a $40 million dollar deficit.
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