Thugs for Better Schools I July 18, 2011 A couple weeks ago I had coffee with a fellow I hoped to recruit for a School Board run. He’s a professional who wrote… Continue Reading
While the Trib points fingers at dim witted pols in St. Paul… July 17, 2011 …they have a hard time doing the same to Duluth’s School Board members. However, a High School student at last year’s combined Central/Denfeld isn’t… Continue Reading
Left behind July 17, 2011 Re: Lake Superior High School. This is an email sent to each of our Duluth School Board members: Hello, my name is ____ _______…. Continue Reading
Save a Reader for me July 15, 2011 A friend sent an email patting Board member Art Johnston on the back for writing something “brilliant” about the backroom dealings in the District… Continue Reading
Casting 100 students adrift July 15, 2011 Lake Superior High School which houses about 100 9-12 students is likely to close because the Duluth School District is washing its hands of… Continue Reading
No decision yet July 14, 2011 I think I’m over my short lived kinder and gentler phase. It was nice while it lasted. I’m listening to another NPR story about… Continue Reading
Putting Red Plan blame on special education students July 12, 2011 I talked with Loren Martell over the weekend. He’s thinking about filing for the School Board. Good for him. When Gary Glass retires we… Continue Reading
And…..? July 12, 2011 I’m still waiting for my paper version of the DNT to show up at my front door to see if there is more to… Continue Reading
I wish the School District could get… July 11, 2011 …a $2.3 million settlement from JCI! Only we should be able to collect $15 million. First it was guaranteed that JCI wouldn’t get a… Continue Reading
I.V. seems like a nice guy July 8, 2011 Other than a video from Nebraska where Dr. Foster was also a candidate for a superintendency this is my first look at Duluth’s new… Continue Reading
Check the Trib tomorrow July 5, 2011 It appears that two friends of the Red Plan have filed or will soon file for the School Board. I ain’t sayin no more…for… Continue Reading
School funding on the chopping block July 4, 2011 The Duluth District just had to borrow twenty million to keep running, something it hadn’t done, if I remember correctly, since before I was… Continue Reading
Supt. Dixon is rather blase … June 20, 2011 …about being rated as low as Congress: I never much liked pollster Bill Morris when he was Chair of the State GOP. I’ll bet… Continue Reading
“Nattering Nabobs of Negativism” is catchier than… June 18, 2011 ….”Doubters, defeatists and pessimists” This letter in today’s Trib is an antidote to Dr. Dixon’s last hurrah (which I can’t find on the Trib’s… Continue Reading
““traitor,” “tyrant,” “despot” and “deceiver” June 16, 2011 Tim Grover gets a sympathetic pat on the back today from one of the students who served (in a non voting capacity) with him… Continue Reading
While the editors are busy lauding Dr. Dixon before his send off… June 16, 2011 …the School District is giving eager buyers a couple weeks to shore up its finances by taking some abandoned properties off its hands. From… Continue Reading
The new East will have “about the same number of students”… June 14, 2011 ….as the school-and-a-half it will replace. On that brief WDIO report I mentioned previously I snorted when I heard about the new school having… Continue Reading
Good Values June 13, 2011 Watching the news segment linked to the previous post I caught a millisecond view of a chart from a survey taken recently. Evidently it… Continue Reading
Tenured teachers make the chopping block June 13, 2011 From WDIO tonight: An estimated 23 teachers in Duluth’s School District may be losing their jobs this year. It’s a result of budget cuts… Continue Reading
But there’s no mention of why the District finds itself with this old school June 8, 2011 I see that the city seems to be taking the lead on the disposal of the school district’s Old Kenwood School. I wonder if… Continue Reading