foster care

Hennepin County Children and Family Services workers do foster care placement. The Time Magazine piece does spotlight some terrible stories from several states, but if this strand does catch some interest, I hope folks realize that foster parents are some of the real heroes in this society.

voucher apology

An apology is in order for my "pox on both your houses" langauge in an earlier voucher post. I am sorry that I offended some list members. Dennis Schapiro Linden Hills

vouchers

I still think voucher discussion is irrelevant here—HELP, DAVID—but as long as people want to continue, perhaps assuming it will be coming down on Minneapolis soon, here’s some stuff. I am the first to characterize the majority of voucher advocates with a level invective that is not

vouchers

I'm not sure a school vouchers discussion is appropriate, unless someone knows something about the next school board elections or some local state race that I don't know. It's been a while since any serious candidate or official from Minneapolis has proposed school vouchers. It doesn't

reunion

When I brought up the issue of the mother-child custody trial, I was not seeking out a discussion on sex education or jurisprudence. I am saying that the child welfare system in Minneapolis as elsewhere in the U.S. is not geared very well to the welfare of children. The media generally latch

mother-child reunion

It's not your routine-type issue for this list, but the recent Strib front-page article on the trial involving the teen-ager who nearly killed her child touches on what seems to me core issues for the city. This sort of stuff happens more than we care to think about in the city. This one made

smaller class size

Thanks to David for raising the question and for forwarding David Heistad's response. Quite obviously, Heistad was saying that the use of those statistics as proof of anything is not justified. I, too, am a strong supporter of the referendum...it would be civic folly to let it fail, but...