Minneapolis Public Schools announces some cuts coming to schools next year

By next school year, Minneapolis fifth-graders likely won't have instrumental music. Eight preschool classrooms will be closed. And several schools may have to say goodbye to their assistant principals.

The district's finance leaders said those cuts come in an effort to close a projected budget gap that has ballooned from $90 to $115 million - the largest in the district's history. The increase was calculated based on salary offers made in contract bargaining, which is ongoing. The Minneapolis teachers union began mediation sessions with the district last Thursday.

"We understand the main takeaway from this presentation and from this budget proposal will be the reductions and their impacts," said Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams at a School Board Finance Committee meeting Tuesday.

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