Category: Duluth Schools

I’ve been told repeatedly that I need to let the Red Plan go so that we can “move Duluth forward.” I’m trying to but…

…unhappy email: Dear School Board Members, I am writing to you as my representatives, and voicing my grave dismay and concerns regarding your vote…

Loren Martell, the chronicler of the Duluth School Board, is always a little behind the curve in reporting Board meetings what with the once-a-week…

I caught WDIO’s late night news and saw that Rep. Erik Simonson’s threat to clip the wings of charter schools has paid off handsomely….

My email buddy who gives me a great deal of grief just sent me this email: Jeez, Harry, you are writing well. Maybe your…

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…

Read the screed Here. • Enrollment losses will be a harsh reality for Duluth if the school board does not swiftly and boldly refocus…

Read the screed Here. • Based on a conservative estimate projecting a loss of 700 students to the charter by 2021-22, Duluth school board…

Read the screed Here. • If the district sells Central High to Tischer Creek, the $14.2 million in one-time money from the sale will…

Read the screed Here. Education Minnesota’s bullet point #1 • Edison charter school’s growth ambitions will cost Duluth’s public schools at least $4 million…

I am done putting my disclaimer on Swords/Plowshares Posts. I did it for 30 posts because I wanted to be sure that new readers…

On Fox News Representative Simonson explains how he will introduce legislation to, among other things, require Charter Schools to have publically elected boards just…

Art Johnston sent the School Board this email today: Hello School Board, I tabulated the emails that I received that were addressed to all…

Sent by Steve Greenfield Communications to the Duluth School Board: Duluth News Organizations: Good morning. Below is a statement from Duluth Edison Charter Schools…

Last night one of the board members who voted not to negotiate with Tischer Creek made the extraordinay claim that (after reading all) the…

This will take some time to compose. No it won’t. I just needed a good night’s sleep to shake off a disappointing night. I…

Disclaimer First the Unions in Duluth pushed the Red Plan for construction jobs at the eventual expense of a hundred teaching jobs. Now the…

At 7 O’clock. Sign up quick before the union critics of our receiving $14.2 million for our children hog the first hour.

Fox News just did a story about Rep Erik Simonson’s letter warning that taxpayers will pay for the Central Sale. Yup. State tax payers…