There are a couple of interesting education related articles in the Tribune today. New test scores are out for 3rd and 5th grades. Unfortunately it doesn't appear that you can access scores by city on the web, but these scores are in the hardcopy edition. Secondly, Minneapolis is about to raise property taxes to make up for the loss of state educational funding (not much of a surprise), but it would be nice to see tests scores and taxes go up together.
Minnesota school test scores show little change http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3323128.html Minneapolis schools set 3.18% levy increase http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3324370.html Michael Atherton Prospect Park _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
