“Programs, unfortunately, have to go. You’re seeing, in different districts, where we’re navigating potential school closures,” said Dr. Renee Sbrocco Corneille, executive director of the Educational Leadership, Practice and Policy department at the University of Minnesota and a former superintendent.
She’s talking about what schools have to do to balance their budgets when they end up on the state’s SOD, or Statutory Operating Debt, list.
After the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) warned the Fridley Area Schools that the district is in a debt spiral, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS wondered how many Minnesota districts are struggling financially…