If they can put schools in a strip mall why not acquire a public school building for a charter? If the public school system wants the building closed: it should sell for little or nothing (as other public land in Mpls) since it has no purpose.. likely to become "blighted" or the city school system could rent it to you and since the government pays for charter schools...this money would then go back into the school system and not a strip mall developer. Why could you not make Pratt a charter school? In our area...instead of using churches and a couple of malls, could they not have utilized the closed Morris Park school? What have we gained by closing a school while paying for space in churches!
The problem with all this...closing schools does not address the issue of what is wrong with the school system that is causing people to leave. And if a school is doing well and achieving the goal of educating children, the system should be working with the school and not trying to destroy it. dorie gallagher nokomis Steve Cross wrote: > the closings were to be accomplished in a quickie fashion. It looked > suspiciously like an effort to accomplish the closings before anyone could > effectively mobilize against it. When mobilization was accomplished anyway, > the suspicion was that the intent was to go to "Plan B." And that plan was > to go through a show of open consideration that arrived at the same > pre-ordained conclusion. Now, with the conclusion in the consultant's > proposal substantially in accord with the original proposal, the cynical > conclusion that what's been going on since February wasn't a "real" process > seems justified. > > The new consultant's report is complete with magnificent color and seemingly > scientific charts. Despite that, the problem remains as it did from the > original process. That is, there is no transparency as to why the > particular schools were selected for closing. It still looks as if someone > somewhere picked schools that he or she didn't like based on no particular > reason and those became the schools to be closed. The only difference > between last February and now is that the conclusions come with magnificent > color and seemingly scientific charts. The only thing that is really new > seems to be a sop to the masses is a hope that maybe, somehow, some of the > buildings will be used for something else sometime in the future. > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
