The notion of non interference of the City Council with the School Board is silly. The City Council is required to ask for the School Board’s approval before they can change the tax base by declaring TIF districts. School Boards often request the Mayor or City Council to vote to approve referendums. A story in the Trib’s bygone days last week remembered the Board asking then Mayor Ben Boo to endorse such a referendum forty years ago.
Other Cities have the Schools under their wing or are fighting to win the right to hire the superintendent.
Also last week during the rehabing of my basement a workman found an old crumpled up copy of the Oct 2, 1930 Duluth Herald stuffed above the ceiling. I found this article:
