Steve Sumner (home) wrote:
> >From the Minneapolis School Board
> "MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE ENCOURAGE DEPARTMENT
> OF CHILDREN FAMILIES AND LEARNING TO USE MORE THAN ONE INDICATOR TO
> DETERMINE STUDENT SUCCESS".
>
> Hello Mr. Wellstone, they are called standard mea
Wade Russell:
Schools are organdized into independent stand alone districts. The
boundaries of a school district may or may not be the same as that of a city
or county or other political entity. For example, the Minneapolis Special
School District #1 has boundaries almost identical to the City
As a businessperson, I helped start a charter school in our city that is
still running today. And there were other business partners including
McDonalds. None of those businesses slotted spots for our employees; we
were interested in the common good.
As for demand, with such a huge demand for m
Hey, Denny, thanks for remembering! That was my story! (I think it was the
Reader, though I worked for both so even I get confused...)
While I am not an absolutist about corporate support of the schools, I wrote
at the time (and continue to believe) that it was wrong for Target to
"purchase" seve
I guess I'm lost. If the city does not fund schools, according to Ms.
Collier, who does? I seriously want to know how it breaks down. Does the
state or county fund public schools? If so, than why aren't urban schools as
lavish as the suburban schools.
Oh, and by the way, there is absolute
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I think it's very interesting that the study about the standards came out
approximately six weeks after the election. One of the questions that I had
about the referendum was whet
maybe related to this: This year the Target Foundation changed it's funding
criteria. While they previously funded a variety of nonprofits and grass
roots arts projects, the word on the street in the nonprofit community is
target's new funding criteria is:
"Programs to keep poor people poor (emer
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The City does NOT fund the schools. Therefore, to say that the City could
provide money for the Mill City school is just not accurate. I agree with
the previous "list writer" who
>From the Minneapolis School Board
"MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE ENCOURAGE DEPARTMENT
OF CHILDREN FAMILIES AND LEARNING TO USE MORE THAN ONE INDICATOR TO
DETERMINE STUDENT SUCCESS".
Hello Mr. Wellstone, they are called standard measurements for a reason.
This is the same
Can someone decode this release?
The MCDA was ready to foreclose on STA, who looked like they would beat the
MCDA to the punch by selling to a Chicago developer who would provide fewer
jobs. Who forced whose hand here? Did STA checkmate the MCDA and force the
agency to back down? Can anyone read
Maybe I'm just nuts here, but it seems to me that there IS a link between a
for profit (very for profitable) deciding to discontinue sponsoring a public
school for "business reasons" while they are willing to take our tax dollars
on the other end to build their downtown corporate digs. Perhaps I'
Sears foreclosure is on hold while MCDA and STA Associates discuss
redevelopment options. Please click on the following link to read the joint
news release from MCDA and STA Associates.
http://www.mcda.org/Content/Org/Newsreleases/STA.htm
Elizabeth Haugen, Public Information
Minneapolis Communi
I would agree with many points Mr. Bouza makes in his
recent cover rant. That he hopes to ignite a debate
speaks mostly to his outsized ego. The debate started
a long time ago. Tony is jumping on a rolling
bandwagon picking up speed.
I agree that newspaper reports and TV news spots can
be insuff
in saturday's startribune, kevin diaz wrote an article
about the omnibus spending bill congress passed before
it closed it's session.
part of the money in that bill was $60 million for lrt
in the hiawatha corridor and $75 million, I seem to
recall, for education throughout the state to reduce
cl
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
Well, if you can't get your science fix from the Strib try the following:
http://www.eurekalert.org/news.pub.brief.html
Much of it is medical, but they have articles on the latest cosmological
find, ways of powering transportation systems, warnings of global warming
effects, etc.
I hadn't heard
Let me start by agreeing with Lawrence Rudnick's posted arguments
for strong local reporter coverage of science issues and dedicated
space in the paper for science news.
The correct date for the editorial he referenced is Dec. 8. I'd
like to make the point that none of the articles he cites i
This is my first post to this discussion group. I have been following
your very interesting threads for a while. I have to stop lurking and
start posting. Tim Connolly induced me to.
I have to applaud him for being honest and saying what most people in
Minnesota are afraid to say in public. W
among the things you apparently won't be reading in
the letters to the StarTrib is the following, a sign
of Minneapolis mediocrity ill-befitting our self-image and
aspirations
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> To: Letters Editor:
> I'm in culture shock. On Friday's (12/1?) editorial page, the StarTribune
>
There were and are lots of questions about Target (or any business)
sponsoring a public school. It would have been nice to air that debate years
ago. List members may remember a cover article on the topic in City Pages (or
was is the Reader?) when the school opened.
But none of those questions
Mark -
What a great idea! And for starters, why don't you send this one in to the
Strib to get the ball rolling?
Ann Berget
Kingfield 10-10
this year i promise not to sweep my leaves into the
street. I promise to visit my neighborhood corner
store more, and Target less. I promise to vote, and
write at least one letter to the editor.
mark wilde
windom park
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