Category: Red Plan

Public schools are prevented by law from charging for educating students. That’s why students can’t be required to pay for their text books although…

I do think laws were bent and or skated past to adopt the Red Plan but I’ve never said that JCI was acting with…

The Trib’s reporter on JCI made it clear to me that the School Board’s contract with JCI was not a “performance contract.” Apparently Sarah…

Apparently no one in the District is authorized to tell Board member Gary Glass about who is getting contracts for Red Plan construction. The…

Kent Worley sent me an email today after reading the School Board’s discussion of the proposed Western Middle School and Piedmont Elementary. Kent has…

Tonight’s Duluth School Board meeting shows how futile it has been for Tim Grover to play team player after going off Dr. Dixon’s Reservation….

Even more than Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae the backers of the Red Plan have deep pockets which will guarantee that te Red Plan…

Not many folks have written in because this page was put up late.

The second half of the JCI story is a great disappointment but not a surprise. The important question isn’t whether JCI can handle the…

The Trib has finally publishing an in depth story about JCI’s compensation for the Red Plan. This is Part 1 which extensively quotes all…

Some of us think history can help explain idiot decisions. Here’s former School Board member Tony Stauber’s brief history explaining how we got to…

Vic sent me this Wall Street Journal Story today. I think it can be tied into the Red Plan much more directly than might…

I sent this email to the City Council and Mayor Ness last night. Its early so I haven’t heard anything from any of them…

I thought this was a pretty good gimmick. I got an email this morning from an email business site called “Cafepress.” The email suggested…

I’ve rolled a number of blog posts and emails together to come up with this week’s Not Eudora column. It harks back to an…

Some of us are taking the City to court because the Planning Department will not authorize an Enviornmental study on the $293 million Red…

Here’s another example from Superior, Wisconsin to help put the Red Plan into perspective. Its in Today’s Trib and concerns increased investment in downtown…

Duluth’s showing in recent statewide tests of our students were mentioned in today’s Trib. Let me point out that these results were achieved in…

I’ve been aware for a month that the Trib was finally preparing to write a story about the JCI/Red Plan critics, Robert Aho and…