Other Minnesota School Districts are in a race to offer the most desirable programs possible to keep their students and attract more to their schools under the Open Enrollment Program.
From the Strib story:
“Many of the marquee programs in west metro school districts such as Eden Prairie didn’t exist until a few years ago, when they began emerging in large part because of competition for students and money, school officials acknowledge.
Now, students can choose from a dizzying array of innovations, from language immersion in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese to expanded International Baccalaureate programs and even a special classroom for budding child geniuses.”
Don’t worry, Duluth will get to keep its grossly underfunded middle school program whose only function with our diminishing resources is to keep sixth graders together with 7th and 8th graders.
