You’d think Democrats would have figured out their architecture was “broken” a long time ago when enrollment declined and they couldn’t/didn’t save any resources or eliminate union or central admin/management jobs. Maybe the aim of the school board architecture whereby the school boards are merely indentured servants is to preserve/hoard centrally managed Education Department resources and union jobs at the expense of business practice? The Dep of Ed could have started eliminating jobs and selling property (which by the way they have an unlimited supply of through unique Minnesota foreclosure procedures of statute 280.001) immediately when enrollment first declined but they didn’t. Now they want some reformist to come in and reorganize them so they can disparage their efforts and make it fail. If they now need maintenance money they could sell 3 decrepid properties, buy one decent newly foreclosed property thru 280.001, and still come out ahead despite the worse disruption and minimal change to ratios. The county and Ed Dept hold the reins to get us out of the mess but they want to see us fight each other and blame classroom disruption on the anti-establishment reformer. The progressives will eventually take up the reform cause along with each county if they’re smart and marginalize the old guard socialists, because, you know, there’s no place for Republicans at all in Minnesota government.

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/statutes/?id=280.001&year=2007