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Board adopts budget values and priorities to guide response to $75.5 million projected shortfall
Summary
The board adopted Resolution 2025-0018 directing the superintendent to prepare a recommended FY 2025–2026 budget guided by 11 values and priorities after noting a projected revenue–expenditure gap of approximately $75.5 million. A substitute resolution was proposed and failed (3–5) before the main resolution passed 6–2.
The Minneapolis Board of Education adopted Resolution 2025-0018, which sets fiscal values and priorities to guide the development of the FY 2025–2026 recommended budget. The resolution notes a projected gap between revenue and expenditures of approximately $75.5 million and sets 11 priorities, including emphasizing evidence- and standards-based programming, ensuring class-size ratios, fiscal and programmatic equity for Students of Color and students with special needs, bolstering student mental-health services and minimizing the impact on classrooms by reducing central office functions.
Director Joyner Emerick moved a substitute resolution to add language and change the list of priorities; that substitute failed on a voice vote (3 Aye — El-Amin, Cerrillo, Emerick; 5 Nay). The main resolution then passed with six 'Aye' votes (El-Amin, Skjefte, Norvell, Callahan, Beachy, Ellison) and two 'Nay' votes (Cerrillo, Emerick). The resolution directs and empowers the superintendent to bring forward a recommended budget that incorporates the listed priorities; a balanced budget must be approved by June 15, 2025.
