As a school board member, resident of Minneapolis and mother of 2 school
children, I have some concerns over this proposal. The tax change Ventura
is proposing is a shallow tax and is subject much more to the whims of the
economy. Property taxes tend to be more stable as housing stock is not as
I have to agree with all the Catherine Shreves wrote. As I said this am
on MPR, we need to look at growth over a period of years. We assess our
kindergarteners to evaluate many basic school readiness skills. If the
state were to expand the reporting to measure children when they enter a
school
Dennis is right, it was originally conceived to have a school downtown for
Target employees. However, the number of Target employees' children
attending the school has dropped significantly. Other families have signed
on to the program and I have heard only good stuff about Mill City.
As to the
It is my understanding that the county oversees the foster care program,
but it does have huge implications for many children in Minneapolis. There
are also foster care placements that are through agencies such as Lutheran
Social Services and Catholic Charities.
Audrey Johnson 10th Ward
At 06:
At 01:40 PM 11/8/00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I still think voucher discussion is irrelevant hereperhaps assuming it
will be coming down on Minneapolis soon, heres some stuff.
Dennis, I saw your apology for this post, but I still must respond.
I think the voucher issue is very relevant
Not knowing the outcome of the Presidential race, I feel that vouchers loom
on the horizen as a big educational debate.
I am opposed to the idea of vouchers. I believe them to be
unconstitutional. Whenever publically raised money flows into private
hands, it crosses a line because there is no d
Thanks you all, list members, supporters and the entire Minneapolis
community for your continued support of the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Knowing that we can continue to provide our children in the elementary
level small classes that allow them to receive more attention through
strengthened rela
I have every intention of responding to this as I have something to say
about vouchers. But I am extremely busy at this time and do not have time
to respond fully! Look for my post about Nov. 8 or 9!
Audrey Johnson
MPS BOE 10th Ward
At 06:03 PM 11/3/00 -0600, Jim Davnie wrote:
>A minor cor
This past week I attended a conference of the Great City Schools, an
oprganization made up of the largest school districts in the country. It
was very informative. The session I found most eye-opening was the one
presented by a member of the States Commission on Education. This
organization's r
Thank you for your support of the actions that we took in the past week.
It is a reflection of our community and this city that discrimination is
not something that helps foster anything but more discrimination.
When I look at the Middle East and the violence, I see a hotbed of
intolerance and
We have not had the opportunity to discuss this as a Board issue of yet,
however I have always held the opinion that discrimination hurts and
intolerance is unacceptable.
The Boy Scouts are a private organization and are not subject to the same
scrutiny as publicly funded organizations. I do r
As a point of information for the list and other interested parties, the
Minneapolis Schol Board is ahead of the pack on this item! We spend time
in the spring exploring different models of governance and decided to
embark on the Carver based model of Policy Governance. In August we had a
rigoro
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