Duluth’s Laura MacArthur Elementary and Proctor’s Bay View Elementary will receive in total over the next three years $1.3 million and $1.7 million, respectively, to do things such as hire more teachers and support staff and pay for teacher development.
Then the Bad news:
The schools were labeled “priority schools” by the Minnesota Department of Education, which means they are among the 5 percent lowest-performing schools in the state for student achievement.
When I was on the School Board Laura MacArthur was a school that ranked poorly but I don’t think it ever descended much below the 30th percentile in Minnesota elementary school performance. 5 percent is hideous.
