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Paul Vallas mentioned that the Chicago school district spends $30,000 per pupil per year. Here in Minneapolis it's over $20,000. If you've got a class of 30 kids that's $600,000 per year to hire a teacher and rent the space.

How can that not be enough money to do almost anything you want to do. Pay the teacher $100,000, rent the hall for $100,000. Hire ancillary staff for $100,000. You've still got $300,000 left.

In Minneapolis only 50 percent test out at grade level in reading and I think it's lower than that in math. Enrollment is declining as people who can move leave or enroll their kids in private schools.

The teacher's union is obviously a major reactionary force and the administration seems incompetent (but I'm not an insider). Attendance has fallen off since the schools were closed during the covid pandemic.

Minnesota has a comparatively short school year (168 days in Minneapolis), a pay scale that is tied to longevity and the collection of meaningless credentials. And the Minneapolis Teachers went out on strike for three weeks in 2022 closing the schools after they had just been reopened post-Covid.

I have to add that the Governor of Minnesota now running for Vice President has offered nothing but support for Teacher's unions that I have seen. Democrats go-to solution to most problems is to spend money but I don't think that has worked in Chicago or Minneapolis.

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All true...and the main reason why I'm disgusted with the Democratic Party, which. refuses to take on these people. Unfortunately, I"m even more disgusted with the Republican Party. But something has to be done about K-12 education, and soon.

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