[Mpls] Ostrows: we should have closed schools now

[Jim MCGUIRE]

Dan McGuire (no relation :-)) wrote:

The detail that is missing is the exact locations of those 800 empty 
classrooms.  I would also be curious to know when they became empty and / or 
when Mr. Jennings become aware that they were empty.  Seems to me, that is 
significant data that was not made public until, well, the actual data has 
yet to be made public.  Let's start with the facts, and then proceed from 
there.
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[JM] I want to expand on this point.  Kari Tauring tells me she asked Sharon 
Henry-Blythe point blank for the cost/benefit analysis data regarding the 
closing of the schools.  Sharon was evasive, but it appeared that such an 
analysis was never done.

Kari, who is running for school board, asked if such data would be available 
to her if she were to win and have to vote on school closing later.  Sharon 
invormed Kari that the school board is a policy making body and strives not 
to make work for the district.

Whereas that may well be good policy one would think that there has to be 
some data backing up a proposal to close 10 of our schools.

Not only is that data not available to the publc - It's apparently not even 
available to the school board.

I'm not neccessarily arguing that schools do or don't need to be closed, but 
we do need an open process for such descisions to be made.  Part of that 
process should be that real data is made available to the public.

Jim McGuire
Como

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