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Old-media slip-up shows a little legacy

By Chris Steller | 09.23.09 | 12:15 pm

sc00400568A Star Tribune photo caption that mistakenly calls current Minneapolis school superintendent Bill Green by the name of his predecessor of 25 years ago is the kind of long-in-the-tooth goof-up only so-called legacy media could make.

Minnesota schools finding uses for stimulus funds, even as enrollment falls

By Paul Demko | 02.10.09 | 9:12 am

While most school districts in Minnesota are steadily losing enrollment and shuttering schools, federal stimulus money is still being allocated for construction. Districts point out that they have millions of dollars of projects in the works that they’d be more than happy to receive pay for with federal funds.

Minneapolis school board candidate, like schools’ exec and strategic plan, has McKinsey imprimatur

By Chris Steller | 05.15.08 | 2:02 pm

The giant international management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., which charted the restructuring effort of Minneapolis city government known as Focus Minneapolis earlier this decade, has lately turned its attention to the Minneapolis Public Schools.…

Public schools take volunteer help on faith

By Chris Steller | 03.24.08 | 2:18 pm

Picture this: a clutch of Minneapolis Public Schools students scooting to a church across from their middle school for after-school activities derived from a Bible-based curriculum.  That image comes courtesy of Here’s Life Inner City, an organization of the Campus…