Northfield is on the front page of the Strib again today: Teachers broke law by posting top test scores. "In an advisory opinion, the http://www.brooksfieldschool.org/ agreed with a parent who…
Category: <span>K-12</span>
The Sibley Elementary School expansion looks like it’s ready for the indoor construction phase, just in time for winter.
I became a mentor a year ago through the Connected Kids program, run by the Community Services Division of the Northfield Public Schools. I’m continuing with my same middle school…
Kari Eliason has a guest column in today’s Nfld News: Parents have questions about late starts. Allen Koch has a letter to the editor, too: Late start is affecting the…
I wonder how Northfield’s public education leaders will react to President Obama’s $4.35 billion "Race to the Top" fund competition. So far, the NEA is not happy. Among other reasons, they really don’t like charter schools, a fact noted by the Sunday Washington Post editorial titled Charter Success: Poor children learn. Teachers unions are not pleased (reprinted in the Strib today with the watered-down title More proof that charter schools work). More background: (continued)
Posted to the Carleton News page: Carleton President Robert A. Oden Jr. Announces Retirement, Effective June 2010 StarTribune at 3:20 PM: Carleton College president to retire
Ray Cox, Kathy Feltes, Julie Pritchard and Mitchell Sellner have applied for an open position on the Northfield School Board, recently vacated by Diane Cirksena. A subcommittee of the board…
While out for a little Shot of Solitude yesterday morning, I came upon a new sign adjacent to the Rec Center parking lot: “Carleton Student Organic Farm – Righteous Food.”…