School Board

Mankato Area Public Schools, Independent School District 77, serves the greater Mankato area located in portions of Blue Earth, Nicollet and LeSueur counties and generally Mankato, North Mankato, Eagle Lake and Madison Lake, Minnesota.  School Board meetings are held regularly with the dates, places and times published in the local paper, district calendar and to the right.  All meetings are held at 5:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) by telephone or Other Electronic Means.

Due to the current federal and state emergency declarations and guidance about limiting person-to-person contact due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, all meetings of the Mankato Area Public Schools (ISD 77) school board will be conducted in accordance with Minnesota Statute 13D.021 - Meetings by Telephone or Other Electronic Means - until further notice.

As a result, all future Mankato Area Public Schools (ISD 77) school board meetings will take place at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. 

Persons may monitor this meeting from a remote location by visiting the school district website: https://www.isd77.org/ where they will find the live-stream video.

To participate in the Open Forum section of the Board Agenda, please fill out this form by 3:00 pm on the day of the School Board meeting.  We will contact you with information on how to access the meeting and participate.

Everyone is welcome to attend School Board meetings to observe its activities. School Board meetings can also be viewed here:

• Watch Live Meetings
• Watch on KTV's website at http://www.accessktv.org/ and at 6 p.m. the Wednesday after they occur on local public access cable channel (Charter channel 180; Enventis channel 8) 
• Watch replays here: Archived Meetings. 

To request that an item be placed on a School Board agenda, contact Becky Bailey at rbaile1@isd77.org or call 507-387-1868.

SCHOOL BOARD WORKSHOP/TRAINING -- CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Mankato Area Public Schools is developing and implementing an equity vision and framework to ensure learning excellence and readiness for each student in the school system.  Equity work has been a central focus for several years, and in the 2020-2021 school year, the school district dedicated itself to making its work visible, rooted in data, and connected to the diverse communities it is privileged to serve.  
 
To support this effort, the Mankato Area School Board is seeking proposals from organizations to provide an equity workshop/training in May and/or June 2021. 
 
Interested organizations are asked to submit answers to the following questions by 5pm on Friday, May 14, 2021.