Bob Dettmer
Guest Columnist
When I read the article in last Thursday’s paper titled “District hopes for funding gap relief,” I was interested. This interest quickly turned to dismay as I read through the piece. I would like to address some concerns that were articulated by School Board members in the article.broadstreet.zone(48036);
As a former educator and high school wrestling coach myself, I have made a conscious effort to be in frequent contact with teachers from our area, the School Board and the Forest Lake School District’s administration regarding how we can help our district with funding shortfalls. I have held several meetings over the last three months to gather input leading up to this legislative session, which have been profitable and resulted in ideas for new legislation.
As the article’s writer states in the first sentence of the piece, the school funding formula is extremely complicated, but we are always working on how
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