Read the screed Here.
• Let’s reject false choices and short-sighted promises and move toward uniting the community behind real and sustainable improvements, like creating more full-service community schools. The success of this model has shown that by working together, diverse stakeholders can reinvigorate Duluth’s schools from the bottom up. Through community engagement and participatory school improvement, Duluth can retain and attract new students and families for generations to come.
Watch me roll my eyes. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!……………Dammit. One of them fell out!
I know ED Minsters don’t live in Duluth but if they could see my email they would know the refusal to sell Central is like ripping a scab off of the Red Plan. Its turned 4 in 5 local people against our ISD 709 School Board. It will be a cold day in Hell before the folks ED MN is telling us to unite will pass a school operational levy again.
Education Minnesota couldn’t care less. They are at war with Charter Schools nationwide and if they can blast a hole in Duluth, no matter the cost, they will have a drunken orgy in St. Paul to celebrate their victory. Ah, but as DFT President Bernie Burnham told her union members, these bullet points were a “Another Value of Belonging” to Education Minnesota. I hope this great value doesn’t cost them too many jobs!
