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Over the past several years, I have written about the importance of making school data easier for families, taxpayers, and community members to find and understand. In my earlier post, “Finding the Facts: School Budgets, Enrollment, and Test Scores,” I shared MCA information along with links to state and district sources so people could look…
Mankato Area Public Schools is reviewing Policy 524 — Internet Acceptable Use Policy. One important question is how far the policy should extend into off-campus Internet and social-media activity on personal devices and accounts. The district’s current Policy 524 already goes beyond activity occurring solely on school computers or school networks. In its section on…
ISD 77 Student Enrollment Reported enrollment from the 2019–2020 school year through September 2026 Source: The earliest four figures are labeled by school year; later figures are labeled by reporting month. The vertical axis begins at 7,400 to show changes more clearly. Enrollment change 1,090 Fewer students since 2019–2020 12.6% Decline from the 2019–2020 baseline…
At tomorrow night’s Mankato Area Public Schools School Board meeting, we will hear a presentation on the MAPS-Eligible Families Initiative, an effort to better understand why families who live within our district have chosen to enroll their children somewhere else. I’m encouraged that district leaders are asking families directly rather than assuming they know the…
Elizabeth Hanke 08/31/2026 Using Edunomics as a source I created a bar graph of spending per school for year 24. When we talk about the school district budget, we usually talk about one large districtwide number. But that does not answer a more basic question: How much are we spending per student at each individual…
