New Duluth school facilities attract students, especially in middle schools
October 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
New schools in the Duluth district particularly the two middle schools appear to be bringing in more or new students, while other schools experienced losses, just-released official enrollment numbers show.
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Of course kindergarten is growing under the Red Plan. It was changed to free, all day. Rope ‘em in early. Slanted DNT reporting as usual.
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Headline really doesn’t match the story. So the brand new Lincoln Park has a increase of 51 students, Ordean has a increase of 2 and a majority of the rest of the schools show loss and the over all is a loss of 130 students..yet they paint this as growth and students rushing back to these brand new overcrowded schools? I agree – slanted reporting – Remember the article back a bit where the superintendent said they weren’t going to ask for a levy increase this year but instead have community meetings to help heal the community before they asked for more money ? Seeing two articles in two days (first one about crowded classes – second one about all the kids flocking back) is simply laying out the groundwork for asking for more money in the Spring or next Fall. Clean house instead. The community needs to see change in the Board from those that put us in this situation and unwisely spent the savings account down to nothing, choosing to spend on wants more than needs. Edison was able to build new without fluff and they have a waiting list.
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Yesterday they were moaning about over crowding, today they crow about attracting new students. Are they pushing for Red Plan II?
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New updated beautiful facilities, unmatched curriculum, great test scores, CITS offered in the public schools only, and people starting to recognizing it. Now all we need is the City of Duluth to acknowledge great schools bring in great businesses. Vote in a new school board and let them work with the lowest levy any city if our size has. Come on Duluth, lets get moving forward and our kids will stay want to stay in Duluth after they graduate. Something else we can all be proud of besides our parks and Lakewalk.
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Duluth was a wonderful place to grow up in but the area has changed in the last few years large numbers of people moving here from the chicago/detroit area (must be beacause of the fine weather and lgreat job market- thats a joke they are here for welfare) many of our good local kids would like to stay here when they graduate BUT THERE ARE NO JOBS
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If the Red Plan indicated future enrollment growth in Kindergarten, then why is Lester Park’s lunchroom so small, why is Congdon going to be full the day it opens after renovation, and why did it the plan propose fewer schools?
I agree with a statement issued by another commentator above: The people responsible for the Red Plan should resign from the board. There are too many people unhappy with the current board to ever move forward from here. There needs to be people on the board who will andmit and face the challenges of the Red Plan, instead of trying to keep painting a rosy picture. Most people don’t trust the incumbents and will continue to vote down any new levies, even if they seem to be sound and necessary.
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duluthian3……I agree! I guess I do not know whether I am reading too much into this or not….but, with these feel good stories saying the district is doing good and enrollment comming back….it sure smells like another crisis is going to “happen”……soon……another attempt to make us feel guilty about turning down the last levy…….and attempting another new levy! The enrollment numbers are not reversing the exodus of students in the last several years…..what the numbers mean in this story….is they are bleeding students “less profusely”……than recent years….BUT, they are still loosing enrollment……bottom line!
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But the screwel board promised the Red Ink plan would solve a multitude of problems, that is why we needed it (in their opinion). The Red Ink plan was supposed to provide larger more spacious schools to alleviate the overcrowding that supposedly existed in our older schools. There was supposed to be better usage of the teaching staff and educational opportunities were supposed to be enhanced. There were supposed to be huge operational savings from closing older schools in spite of increased bussing of the kids. Are you telling me that the screwel board was telling lies on all those points because none of it has proven to be true? Would our screwel board lie to us? I hope those screwel board members enjoy their graft, corruption, kick-backs, payoffs whatever…for sacrificing our kids for their own ill-gotten gains or their egos.
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I’m sorry, but this not news, this is an attempt at public manipulation. Kind of like the Dicklich ‘non-opinion’ on the ID amendment a few days ago. I see the DNT raised their prices recently…They are forgetting that the mindless people they are thinking they are writing to are not the type of people that pay 1.25 for a local 5 page daily paper.
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