The battle over charter schools today is largely due, I believe, to a misunderstanding of the charter school idea and its purpose....
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Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants to extend the school day to 6 p.m. to align it with the work day and better support working families. But is a longer school day the solution to rigid work schedules? Even liberal Whoopi Goldberg is concerned, referring to Harris's plan as "institutionalizing" kids....
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For some reason, the agenda for the Duluth School Board's public meetings gets discussed and set in private behind closed doors. Not only are members of the public excluded from attending meetings to set the agenda. So are all but two of the school board members who represent the public. But perhaps not for much longer, thanks to questions raised in the news coverage and now the editorial page of the Duluth News Tribune. Yes, of course there’s suspicion — or the “implication” — “that there is something that is going on in School Board agenda meetings that’s secret or excludes people,”...
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School funding debates have led to several pretty costly spending proposals from the 2020 presidential candidate pool. There are three big concerns Americans need to consider before they jump on board with these proposals....
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Today, school districts that had their levy pass took to social media to share the news. But what was disturbing was how the news was shared—children were being used as props to support the tax increase. ...
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It’s unfortunate the teachers’ union resorted, again, to using students and families as its political pawns. The Chicago teachers’ strike was more than a labor agreement dispute, it was a power play....
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The annual Kate L. Dunwoody Society Luncheon, held in recognition of the vision and generosity of Kate L. Dunwoody who pioneered support of technical education 105 years ago, raises scholarship dollars for female students enrolled at the technical college....
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Nathaniel Elifson is the welding student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College we met last chapter, and Matthew Nickolay is his friend and a HVAC student at Dunwoody College who we also met. What do they get from working with their hands?...
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Seventeen high school girls from across Minnesota participated in a speech competition at the state’s Capitol this past Saturday. Speaking Proudly, the oratory competition sponsored by the Metro Republican Women, tasked interested high school females with writing an original persuasive speech on Benjamin Franklin’s prescient statement, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” Photo Source: Speaking Proudly ...
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Aircraft mechanics are in short supply around the nation. But in Duluth, that’s changing, thanks to the innovative efforts of both aviation companies and community and technical colleges....
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