I have some issues with a school board member being allowed to build up
this kind of debt to the district. As an employee of the school district, I
can tell you that when there's a "computer
glitch" with the payroll deductions like medical premiums from a teacher or
educational assistant's
The only meeting the school district's reuse group has set up for the Phillips
School (Peavey Park) site isn't until Dec. 5th. I think it's interesting that
the Howe and Cooper sites each have 3 meetings set up so far, but the Phillips,
Willard, Hamilton and Holland sites only have one each so
Here is the list of meetings set up so far for community input on the
reuse of closed Minneapolis schools. Since this was sent out yesterday
afternoon from the MPS ReUsePlan group and the first meeting is
Tuesday, I hope they work on getting info out sooner.
Buzzy Bohn
Folwell
Outreach teams are
Good suggestions! I try to attend as many board meetings as I can (although
I've missed the last couple because I broke my right wrist and can't drive) but
the timing is always a hassle. I have
to race out of my building as soon as the students are gone to make the
meetings. Most of the paren
As a person who, until last week, has spent almost every Tuesday night at
Molly's for years, I have to tell you that there is a lot more issues there
then just the smoking ban.
Since Molly's moved to the new site, they've never had smoking in the
restaurant side so the smoking ban probab
I don't know about crime where you all live, but in my little part of North
Minneapolis crime is way up! I had my canoe stolen Aug. 20th, my boat stolen
Aug. 22nd and when I came home this afternoon from tending to family grave
sites up near Little Falls, my home had been broken into. i've liv
If anyone has some free time this afternoon, there's going to be a
hurricane victims benefit at Tillie's Bean on the corner of 38th St and
28th Av S. I know there's going to be live music since my son,
Jeremiah, is one of the musicians donating their time to play. Besides
having another way t
If you go to the Hennepin County property info site and type in the address, it
will tell you who owns it and who is paying the property taxes.
http://www2.co.hennepin.mn.us/pins/addrsrch.jsp
Buzzy Bohn
Folwell
Barbara Lickness wrote:
> Any idea who owns there properties on Lake and Park?
>
>
ess). Each meeting has a printed agenda.
> One of the first items on the agenda is "approval of minutes". Not sure why
> that is on there since they don't take notes as Pat Bohn pointed out.
>
> Consent agenda was approved (personnel issues and business affairs).
There's also a benefit to the Police Federation itself. The more police there
are, the more members they have and the more dues they collect. I'm a big
supporter of unions and of having more police on the street, but in reality the
Police Federation is looking out for it's members and itself,
Theoretically, there is supposed to be community input about the "repurposing"
(district's term) of schools. Considering the terrible job they did of getting
input about the closings, I doubt
there will really be much community input.
Here's the latest school "repurposing" report link from the
When Fremont Ave N was taken down to the streetcar tracks a few years ago,
my husband and a neighbor asked the workers what they did with the red brick
pavers. They were told that the city hauled them off and pulverized them.
Rather than see that happen, many of us put peices of historic F
Ms. Beckers pretty much hit it on the nail. The city can't or won't take care
of problem properties but wants to control the number of windows and type of
siding? I have a house on my corner
that's been boarded up for more than a dozen years. The MCDA bought it in 1992
and the city still hasn
As a Northside educator for the past 19 years, I brace myself every time I
hear another child has been hit by gunfire. I'm always afraid it was one of my
students. Then I think about how it
will effect my students who live in these neighborhoods.
This madness has to stop!
I'd very m
As a Northsider, I might add that the school board members didn't vote to
close schools that any of their children attend or the schools in the
neighborhoods where most of them live. Even
Pratt School in SE, which only has 80 students, remained open while schools
with many more students on
Check out the Taste section of today's Startribune. Jeremy Iggers does a
review of Rix and also short pieces of two other Northside Eateries, Tooties on
Lowry and Emily's F&M Cafe. A few weeks
ago he did a review of the Coconut Grove on 35th and Penn N. Personally, I'm
glad to see our Northsi
Is this the same land that the "Save Anwatin Woods" group is working on?
They have a website: www.SaveAnwatinWoods.org. I grew up on 4th and Queen Av N
and spent a lot of my childhood in and
around Eloise Butler and Glenwood(now Wirth) Park would hate to see anything
harm that area.
Buzzy
I have backed the superintendent through most of this fray over her
leadership, that is until the Tuesday board meeting.
I know some of the people who are on the "fire at will" list and in one
case have spent the last 5 years working closely with that person. These are
outstanding educa
While principals do have a contract, they are assigned to buildings.
Sometimes the staff and parents can influence that decision, but not very
often. Principals' contract rights/seniority
do effect if they retain a job as a principal. This is especially important in
years like this when s
Hundreds of teachers have been laid off in Minneapolis in the past few
years. There really aren't many, if any, "novice" teachers in any school. If
we ever get more funding for K-12
education so we can hire back teachers or hire new teachers the whole question
of experience may be an issue
The whole notion that senior teachers don't teach in the schools with the most
need, just isn't true. If you look at schools like Bethune, North Star,
Franklin, Loring and other Northside schools
you will find many teachers with a lot of seniority. I myself have 19 years
seniority as an educat
The inspectors also don't know one plant from another. A couple of years ago
they had some of my daylilies and hostas mowed down even after I called the
inspector and told him they weren't
weeds. Then he sent us a bill for $100.
Buzzy Bohn
Folwell
Jim McGuire wrote:
> Did anyone else catch D
As a person who was at the May 20th Peace across 26th chain/march I can
tell you that most of the folks I saw were Northsiders. You don't have to be
from Jordan to be concerned. If anyone
thinks that the problems in the Jordan neighborhood don't spill over to the
surrounding neighborhoods,
Last night I was at the Ice Cream Social at Victory Park. Peter McLauglin
was there campaigning and had stickers and Rep. Joe Mullery was there handing
out his surveys (which have his picture
on them). At the same time, Jon Olson and a lot of park staff were there and
didn't stop them. Did
NCLB does require that any group that provides tutoring be okayed by the
state department of education and does have specific guidelines.
As for testing. The MCAs, which the state of Minnesota decided to use to
meet the NCLB act, only assess this years students against last years student
As a person who has been dealing with the Minneapolis school board for
25 years as a parent, community person and employee, I feel a need to
comment on the whole Peebles uproar. I do believe that the
superintendent needs to work on her people skills. However, a lot of
what is being floated aroun
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