Category Archives: RAS

Response from RAS

Nothing shocking here for a response.  Basically, we hear yeah but don’t know what the future holds. Richard, Basic information about the settlement with the RFT has been published on the district website.  It will also be published in the Sun … Continue reading

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Letter to school board

Dear Board Members, It is now public information about a tentative agreements between 281 and the RFT.  This agreement show a 0% and 1% increase on top of the already established steps/lanes (average of 1.15% per teacher).  What I am … Continue reading

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The sit-in revisited

So we are a few days later from the sit-in and while reading back my first post I did find that I made an assumption that wouldn’t be true in the math.  I was comparing the first year salary from … Continue reading

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The sit in

As I write this the RFT is getting ready to conduct basically what I consider a sit in.  They plan to march into the board meeting, sit there from 7:00 PM to 7:45 PM ish and then leave all together … Continue reading

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Charter schools. Should we be afraid?

So I got an interesting e-mail today (actually went to all of the candidates – would love to see every other candidate to state their preference as well but that won’t happen) that made an argument that Robbinsdale Area Schools … Continue reading

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Campaign Update

Last night was a great event.  I wish we could do more of those.  Special thanks to the folks who were able to put it together.  I think I left at about 11:30 PM so lots of people to talk … Continue reading

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Fiscal Responsibility…what does that mean?

So one of the common themes you will hear during the election process is let’s have a sense of fiscal responsibility.  But what does that mean?  They will want to make you believe the district is wasting money at every … Continue reading

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