Minneapolis Comprehensive District Design

 After finding out our children failed to get grandfathered into their existing school due to Minneapolis Public Schools. https://mpls.k12.mn.us/cdd

Send to Ed Graff, School Board, Jacob Frey and Jereemy Schroeder - 

We have been struggling with some difficult conversations with our children and would like to share equal parts of our sadness and frustration with this group. 

We have 6 families that lived within our four blocks that had children the same age as our kindergarten and 1st grader all who were set to or were actively attending Hale. 

The kind of friends that go bike riding together, play video games together that you picture your children growing up with. 

Five of those families have or are actively in the process of moving out of Minneapolis. While there are many reasons people choose to move all of them said the Comprehensive Design and new schooling system played a key role. 

I have been looking for ways to explain what is happening and why to my children so if there is anything that is age appropriate that is available I would appreciate it being passed. This is just showing up to them like their friends are disappearing. 

Also hoping it answers how this decision will give them a better education and lead to a better Minneapolis that people don't want to walk away from. 

Few things that would be helpful for parents like me.

1.) What is the hypothesis the CDD is testing and how are we measuring the results to know if it is achieving the right thing? 

2.) The placement process and the algorithm of what it is doing to assign children to a school or magnet should be transparent and public.  (We have two children who were placed at different schools and told our lottery had closed but they opened an new lottery for others)

3.) What steps are being taken by this group to address the root cause issue of distributing taxes to equally fund schools at a county or state level. Without solving systematically we are only treating a symptom that will just manifest itself elsewhere. 

Look forward to hearing from this group.