DFL Education Foundation

Preview (6/12): "Why I'm Not Running For School Board Again and Some Comments on Minneapolis and Public Schools"

Saturday, June 12
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Gardens of Salonica
19 5th St NE, Minneapolis (map)

Pam Costain and Chris Stewart, retiring Minneapolis school board members, will discuss their experience on the school board and why they chose not to run again.

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Only 3 blocks north up E. Hennepin Avenue (County Road 52) from our old meeting place, and a half block west.

As usual, invite anyone interested--free and open to the public. Come, buy your coffee (the law is you can't bring food or drinks into a restaurant), learn a lot and have your questions ready.

Minneapolis School Board candidates respond

Two weeks ago, the Achievement Gap Committee posed a series of questions to the candidates for Minneapolis school board. 12 of the 14 candidates responded and their answers are available at the Achievement Gap website. 

Listen now: Facing our Fiscal Challenges with John Gunyou

In May we hosted John Gunyou, a government insider who thinks and frequently publishes common sense and entertaining op-eds. His timely topic: "Facing Our Fiscal Challenges." Currently city manager of Minnetonka, Minnesota, he has served as Minneapolis' finance director and was Minnesota's finance commissioner in the Carlson administration.

Just click here to listen to the conversation.

As always, this pod cast is produced by The DFL Education Foundation and iDream.tv.

Turning around failing schools - a recipe that works

Turning around failing schools is not rocket science, John Simmons told an overflow crowd in the basement of University Lutheran Church of Hope on April 16. Nor, he said, is it necessary to fire principals and teachers to turn around schools. He believes - and his organization's record shows - that it's possible to turn around school performance by empowering the teachers and principals, and the students and parents, who are already there. 

Read the rest of the recap of our April 16 Achievement Gap meeting at TC Daily Planet...