Minnesota Teacher Union Bosses Ignore Reality

In 1997-1998, as education journalist Mike Antonucci recently noted, citing the archives of the Digest of Education Statistics, MPS “educated 49,157 students” at a cost of $13,076 per pupil in 2018 dollars.

By the 2017-18 academic year, MPS enrollment “had dropped to 32,722 students and the district spent $16,571” per pupil. That’s a 27% increase, above and beyond inflation as measured by the U.S. Labor Department.

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