I feel remiss in not responding to our list manager's prompt on the
referenda earlier.
I am hoping that Minneapolis voters will "Vote YES for Kids" on November
7th, because that is what this school referendum is really about. It is
about educating children from incredibly diverse
Catherine Shreves weighs in:
Minneapolis also has its own research department which has been
documenting the gains in achievement of those stduents who have been
with the MPS for their entire school career, and therefore benefiting
from the lower class size. For example, 79.4% of students who
Part of the problem with this issue, David, especially schools, is in this
day and age to be against the referendum on schools is like being against God
and motherhood. However, I have to say that I am against the one on schools.
When the first one came up I questioned some of the school
While I will queue up in the voting booth line, I haven't joined any queues
to 'honk' in support of... I think the voting public is looking for more
than PR gimickery in return for their tax dollars. Of course, the bottom
line is that we get what the majority votes for... for better or
How to judge tax value? That is a hard question for the public to
understand. And I don't think you can penalize schools or libraries because
our city administration continues to contribute to wealthfare. That just
isn't appropriate. It seems to me that you need to take each item
separately
