During an April 23 work session in which the Anoka-Hennepin School Board members decided they would not hold up a 2025 budget over ideological concerns, multiple board members also considered
Anoka-Hennepin Schools have stopped planning for a shutdown, district leaders announced Wednesday, noting a budget breakthrough as it works through board member concerns over spending on racial diversity and gender equity programming. Four members agreed to approve a 2024-25 budget during a work session Tuesday, Superintendent Cory McIntyre said in an interview Wednesday. "We got the verbal .
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The Anoka-Hennepin school board is at risk of a budget impasse that could shut down the state's largest district, and students of color and LGBTQ students are caught in the middle of the debate. So, they marched this week and appeared before board members in a two-hour-plus public comment session Monday during which Ishmael Kamara, 17, a leader of the Black Student Union at Blaine High School, .