In Ely this year, district leaders reduced in-school time to four days a week to address budget shortfalls.
In Minneapolis, district leaders are proposing the closure of more than a dozen schools to make better use of limited funding.
In Carlton-Wrenshall, two districts voted to combine in order to better deal with financial and enrollment troubles.
In Duluth, where district leaders have had to make cuts three years in a row, superintendent John Magas volunteered to freeze his contract-guaranteed salary raise “in solidarity” with his staff and students.



