Good Red Plan News July 10, 2012 After spending $315 million dollars(not counting interest) on the Red Plan Duluth’s schools only suffered a hundred thousand dollars in June flood damage. Its… Continue Reading
The dark arts of Johnson Controls July 4, 2012 I’ll write about these revelations from the Timberjay tomorrow or later tonight. p. 10: Zelda Bruns: ” We’re worse off now than we were… Continue Reading
ISD 709 to glut local housing market June 25, 2012 From a recent ad in the DNT: From Kerry Leider, Facilities Management: Please see below, the following ISD 709 properties are no longer needed… Continue Reading
Carmine plan redux May 18, 2012 I’ve not linked to any of the recent stories about the Duluth Schools. Its sort of like kicking a dead dog. Nonetheless I shouldn’t… Continue Reading
JCI’s Birds of a feather April 23, 2012 a letter to the editor sent to the Timberjay: 4/22/12 What are JCI and the school board trying to hide? Mr. Helmberger: My recent… Continue Reading
Speaking of credibility April 9, 2012 I like the way the DNT finds good counterpoints to balance off left and right, pro and con. The damning letter in the Sunday… Continue Reading
This is from a student in our schools… April 9, 2012 …not me and my idle speculations. Reader’s View: Duluth school district hasn’t kept its promises If ISD 709’s plan was to make kids leave… Continue Reading
Speaking of effrontery March 22, 2012 Coming from the Chairman of the School Board whose decision to betray Duluth voters and tax them to high heaven leading to the evaporation… Continue Reading
Speaking of idiocy sans my smart mouth – this infuriates me March 21, 2012 Be prepared. Next year will be worse than this: Duluth school district classroom sizes are again set to grow larger with teaching ranks expected… Continue Reading
Destroying email could bring down the English Government March 13, 2012 From the Daily Dish. The District and JCI got our attorney just at the time he was about to be given access to it…. Continue Reading
Next year will be even worse March 13, 2012 for the Duluth Schools: increasing the student to staff ratio by another 0.92, a move that would mean about 12 teacher layoffs and likely… Continue Reading
But we have such wonderful new schools March 7, 2012 More on the Red Ink Plan: Some of the district’s proposed cuts include: Going from seven periods to six at the middle schools, saving… Continue Reading
$3.9 million more won’t cost the Duluth Schools a cent? March 6, 2012 No it will only cost the taxpayers. An early email from a friend reading the article I remarked on in the last post sent… Continue Reading
More Red Plan Miasma March 6, 2012 Just checked the online Trib. Cue eye roll. More bad news. Too bad the School Board didn’t pay attention to the citizens before embarking… Continue Reading
Let me tell you about Zeke February 27, 2012 After I’d survived a year of being the only outsider in North Mankato’s insular (if not inbred) Garfield Junior high a kid with bright… Continue Reading
The big snow storm – I got zip February 27, 2012 A week ago early forecasts suggested we might get up to eight inches of snow. That was music to my ears since this would… Continue Reading
The Red Plan’s enhanced segregation of the Duluth Schools February 20, 2012 Nettleton Elementary – now 50% minority: Nettleton has for more than 20 years been identified by the state as a segregated or “racially identifiable  Continue Reading
DNT Red Plan Editorial Fatigue February 20, 2012 I suspect the Trib’s editors are looking forward to the day when they can stop defending the District over the Red Plan. At that… Continue Reading
Red Plan Fatigue February 20, 2012 I only look at the DNT’s comment section on the Red Planned Duluth School District occasionally. Its populated by lots of the same folks… Continue Reading
How were the Kansas City Schools fixed to the breaking point? February 18, 2012 This story on today’s NPR Saturday Edition never mentions the judge whose ruling preceded the death watch for the public schools of Kansas City…. Continue Reading
