Before a disappointed standing-room-only crowd, a badly fractured Minneapolis school board voted Thursday night to close six more schools, but that's not the end of the job. The closings will deal with barely one-third of the district's classroom surplus, and more school closings loom. "There will be more pain ahead," said Board Chairwoman Pam Costain.

At the end of a sometimes tumultuous four-hour meeting, Superintendent Bill Green's administration got its way, but at the cost of a nasty fraying of relations among some rookie board members who were elected last fall. The 6-1 vote will close 209 classrooms, forcing almost 2,100 students and their families to choose new schools. But the administration said the district has at least 600 classrooms no longer needed as its enrollment slides.

Thursday's vote will close W. Harry Davis Academy, North Star, Lincoln, Jordan Park, and the previously targeted Shingle Creek, all on the North Side, and Tuttle in southeast Minneapolis. . . .