I think I have to correct 2 errors on the list. 1. Dr. Bill Green, who
just left the School Board, is not a teacher in the MPS. He is a Professor
at Augsburg College. 2. He was not asleep at any board meeting I attended,
he just looks that way from the camera angle. I sat next to him for 1 yea
Gary Bowman writes;
>I realize the value of spending a little now if it saves more later and
the value of quality products (in this case, a quality leader for
Minneapolis Public Schools). However, even with that consideration, I must
confess that I am immensely hard-pressed to justify a $30,000
I am happy to respond to Mr. Stolarek's inquiry. There are never simple
answers, so this is a little long.
>>Having just read David Brauer's recent posting
>>announcing the appointment of a COO by the Mpls School
>>District's Superintendant to help her with the
>>District's financial problems, I
Whoops! Youv'e got me there Mr. Atherton! I am not a statistician, just a
liberal arts grad from the 70's and early 80's. Never was require to take
statistics. Fortunately my children have been exposed to statistics in
their middle school curriculum in the Minneapolis Public Schools, so I
imag
I finally got to read all the posts on this. I was writing an article for
community papers and I will share that here. At running the risk of
stating the obvious, there is no replacement for human interaction. The
district has no plans or wishes to replace teachers with computers as was
implied
I wanted to respond to this a while back, last week was tremendously busy
and my kids were on the computor almost all evenings doing school work and
projects. I do have the information Mr. Atherton requested about the study
that quoted the numbers on student achievement and the most important
fac
Mr. Atherton is right, current research shows that student acheivement can
be accurrately measured as follows: 49% attributed to parent involvement,
about 42% teacher quality, and about 8% to class size. A top priority of
the district is currently to provide staff development in a way that is
sh
Minneapolis did vote on levies to keep class sizes small, and the sizes
promised at the elementary level are being held to that level. At the
secondary levels, there are over enrolled classes. So what's happening?
The official count of students happens, by state mandate, early in October.
The c
The Minneapolis Public School Choice fair is this Saturday Nov. 3 at the
Hyatt Regency 12th and Nicollet, from 9-2 with validated parking for up to
2 hours. Anyone who is interested in our Public Schools should attend,
every school and many charter schools will be there with staff to tell
interes
Whoops! I had written a response and talked to Catherine Shreves. I sent
her my response we made a few revisions, and then she posted it. I went
back on line rather late and didn't realize she had sent in my post to the
list, so I sent it as well. Sorry folks!
Audrey Johnson
MPS BOE
10th war
This is in response to Mr. Trainor's e-mail regarding Minneapolis
Technical Training Academy, an alternative school that has a contract
with the Minneapolis Public Schools to provide an educational program
for 225 9th and 10th grade students.
Last night, the MPS board voted to accept the Super
Remember: our rules allow pointed disagreement, but require respectful discussion.
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On Monday, around 3pm, I was driving a friend to the airport. As we were
coming off of 494 going east into the airport we saw 2 bald eagles soaring
on the thermals. We both gasped as a 727 was flying on a dir
Just wanted to weigh in the comments about events and circumstances
surrounding our Superintendent.
Until sometime late Thurs., most of the Board did not feel that Dr. Johnson
was seriously considering the Nashville offer. Over the weekend we all
were in contact with Dr. Johnson to try to convin
The entire Board has repeatedely asked her to stay for a number of well
stated reasons. I think if the folks on the list and throughout the
community could show her support through maybe a phone call to the office,
668-0200, or and e-mail to her: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or even a letter to
the editor
I know that the Minneapolis delegation is not happy over the impasse at the
legislature, but Sen. Pogomiller is standing tough on isssues. Truth of
the matter is that the power base has moved to the outer ring suburbs and
contacting our legislators won't change much at this point.
I have come
I believe it is along Broadway and that it was built there on purpose!
Audrey Johnson
possible geopraphy geek
10th ward
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Denny, in response to your question about threats of possible litigation, I
merely stated what I felt to be the options given various circumstances.
The devestating effects that "sunseting" comp ed would have would cause
many large school distrcts and some small rural ones to not be able to
provid
List members, I submit articles to community newspapers and I wanted to
share this one in light of the fact that the session is suppose to end this
evening.
The Fundamental Right to an Adequate Education
With the end of the legislative session looming before us, the revenue that
school districts
One list member stated that you only get one chance. Not quite true, we
have many adults that return to take several offerings for adults to get a
high school diploma. Even Rep. Jim Davnie got his h.s.degree from adult
education programs!
I think that many students who drop out realize later on
I have some involvement with the schools, so I thought I too would weigh
in. I am a parent of 2 middle school kids. Both have very different
learning styles and needs. There is no doubt that most every parent
agonizes over making the right choices for their children, and school
selection is a b
As an amateur birder, I can atest to the fact that many cardinals winter
over. I saw a robin on Jan. 3, so this was another bird that missed the
bus or something! Today I heard the first redwing blackbird, it's a full
month later than last year. I have also seen lots of cedarwaxwings, but no
Tonight at our Board meeting, Incumbant Ross Taylor announced that he is
running for a 3rd term. Bill Green announced that he would not seek a
third term.
Three seats is a lot to turn over on a seven member board. It takes a
while to get up to speed and it is truly a public service to serve o
The 3 school board seats that are up for election will actually be three
year terms as the Board, a few years ago, decided to bring school board
elections in line with other elections to have a greater voter turn-out and
to save the city money on the cost of running an "off year" election. In
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I wanted to weigh in on this subject as a parent and BOE member. There
will never be a "perfect" school, but the goal is to educate all our
students. A phenomenon I have noticed, and indeed been guilty of, is that
most parents truly believe their child is gifted at the elementary level
and most
>[TB] I challenge either Ms. Johnson or Mr. Yudof to
>point to a time where either the University or public
>schools have received a budget reduction, less money
>in one year than the prior year. They may not have
>received what they wanted or as much of an increase as
>they had at some previ
Sorry to post again, but I see that Catherine and I were responding to this
question at the same time. I urge list members to contact the Gov. and
legilative leaders with concerns about the budget as it relates to
education spending. Catherine included information about how and to whom,
I just a
I think the difference here in the amounts of projected shortfalls is that
the district projected, based on the last several years, that the district
would receive an additional amount of money, as it did last year; although
this traditionally happens at the end of the session, so we sit on edge
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