SMART Finance News You Can Use

The FY27 Revenue Projection Model is now available. Go to MDE’s website here to download a copy: https://public.education.mn.gov/MDEAnalytics/DataTopic.jsp?TOPICID=247.

If you would like assistance with next year’s revenue budget, send Region 1 your FY27 adjusted pupil estimates. We will use those pupil estimates to create a revenue budget using the Budget Workpapers in SMART Finance.

If you begin working on the FY27 Budget, note the following:

• It includes the FY26 What-if (FY27 won’t be available until a later time)
• On the User Inputs tab, enter FY26 IDEAS data on rows 41-60 until FY27 data is available
• The state aid tabs will be FY26 amounts
• The special ed revenue tabs include the most recent 

As a starting point, we recommend copying the FY26 revenue budget to FY27.