Reaction to my recent letter to the Trib November 15, 2011 One of the most finance savvy past School Board members wrote me this email. HARRY, THE LETTER SAID IT ALL. RALPHY HAS ALWAYS BEEN… Continue Reading
Holy Cow! The Trib printed my letter November 11, 2011 Apropos the last post: Reader’s view: The flight of Duluth students is Dixon’s legacy The writer of an Oct. 6 letter seemed disappointed Red… Continue Reading
How much have we paid JCI so far for the Red Plan? November 11, 2011 According to Gary Glass: “payments to JCI as of 10.27.2011 = $42,844,432.85” That’s so far. Looks like Gary was using a pretty conservative estimate… Continue Reading
Grover, Cameron, Seliga-Punyko as cheerleaders for levies November 10, 2011 Reading this story of three board members blaming another for the failure of the operational levies brought the following history to mind. 1997, Tim… Continue Reading
live wire November 4, 2011 I was going to title this with the cliche about being up to the wire then thought of a better cliche. The District’s hopes… Continue Reading
Chickens coming home to roost November 3, 2011 Today’s Trib was non-stop coverage of a failing school district. I hardly know where to begin except to say that it all began with… Continue Reading
Dr. Doty’s 2 cents October 27, 2011 Below you will see the poor excuse for advocacy which appeared in the Trib’s letter column just before my blog went down. I composed… Continue Reading
Setting the Duluth School levy for 2013 October 7, 2011 This story describes one step in the Kabooki dance the Duluth School District must go through to set its local tax rate. By law… Continue Reading
Nobodies talking about it October 5, 2011 Only about twenty people went to last night’s school board forum. That’s a bit of a rebuttal to the notion of building something so… Continue Reading
Speaking of past op levy opponents October 4, 2011 I’m pretty sure it was the 2001 operational levy referendum that Judy Punyko-Seliga told me she couldn’t support because the Duluth School Board just… Continue Reading
Truth in Duluth October 4, 2011 I had a friendly tap on the shoulder from a few seats behind me at the last Duluth Symphony performance. (Sam Black wasn’t nearly… Continue Reading
How dumb are the Trib’s editors? October 3, 2011 Maybe I should start by asking that of myself. How dumb am I? I spent so long writing about the column about Edison’s funding… Continue Reading
Who paid for Edison? October 2, 2011 I read this explanation of where the new Edison school in Duluth got its financing before church today. It is certainly accurate. I’m not… Continue Reading
An old friend is organizeing a vote “No” campaign. September 30, 2011 He sent me an email this morning and I had to tell him that I planned to vote for all levels of the operational… Continue Reading
I wonder what will replace… September 30, 2011 …death by a thousand cuts? Lucky for Duluth that the President is letting us escape No Child Left Behind. We won’t have to report… Continue Reading
Stealing lawnsigns September 30, 2011 I read this letter in the Trib today. I remember when one of my predecessors on the School Board told me how the writer… Continue Reading
No Child left falling between the cracks of Outcome Based Education September 30, 2011 I experienced very little “local control” when I served on the Duluth School Board except from my fellow school board members. As George Balach… Continue Reading
While Duluth’s public school enrollment declines college enrollment grows September 29, 2011 The DNT did include a graphic from today’s newsprint story on the increase in enrollment numbers at local colleges. Its funny but when the… Continue Reading
Duluth’s school levy referendum September 29, 2011 I wish the DNT had included its little graphic that went with the newsprint version of this story today on one-third of Minnesota School… Continue Reading
Occam’s Razor meets ISD 709’s enrollment data September 28, 2011 I think I’ve made the story about the Duluth School District’s enrollment data far too complicated. Let’s simplify. The District says it arbitrarily subtracted… Continue Reading
