> I think it's very dangerous to have a single party with all the > power -- it tends toward corruption. I wonder if that has been a > contributing factor to our two recent jailbirds from the city council. When > you don't have any outsiders, you sometimes end up winking at bad behavior. > > Mark V Anderson This holds true on the national and local level. The sad thing, on the local level, they keep getting elected and have for many years! Used to be the free tire giveaway now is it not in the form of giving services and projects to special areas? ***************************** The Highland Villager had a good article about school closings in Minneapolis. A point that was interesting was newly elected Lee is totally opposed to the plan because it creates too many K-8 schools before there are not enough effectively trained administrators to handle them. " We need to build teacher's skills before creating more K-8s . There are 23 k-8 schools in the district now and only a handful of them are doing well. " Judy Farmer agreed with her, saying "Lee is right that there have been problems providing challenging middle school programs that prepare students for high school and beyond...she is right that better trained administrators are going to be needed for middle schools and new K-8's but Henry-Blythe thinks there are ways to address Lees concerns...she does not anticipate slowing down the decision process any more...."We don't want to create K-8 schools and not have them do well. Part of it will be getting training and finanicial resources to the right places."
If we did not get the training and resources to the right places before...what makes it going to happen now? If we had K-8 schools not doing well before...why wasn't that issue addresssed long before now? They laid off how many teachers and they do not have enough effectively trained administrators to handle the schools? Why? I believe we needed to close some schools but a plan should have been instated prior to closing to correct problems existing. I am glad Lee is going on the board. dorie rae gallagher nokomis > 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 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
