John LaPlante
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Did You Do It For Love, Did You Do It For Money?
Advocates of public sports stadiums should admit that they are homers, not economic development experts. That’s the conclusion of an editorial from Bloomberg.com. The headline announces: “As Super Bowl shows, build stadiums for love and not money.” It notes that the Lucas Oil Stadium, the site of the recently completed Super Bowl XVI, cost $720 million-of [...]
category: John LaPlante
tags: Sports stadiums
Happy Digital Learning Day
Today is “digital learning day,” a celebration of the possibilities of using online tools to deliver education. Curiously, Minnesota is not one of the 39 states officially observing the day. That’s too bad, when you consider the possibilities it has to offer students ways to get classes they might not otherwise be able to get, [...]
category: Education, John LaPlante
Funding the Child through Local Aid Proposed
A legislative proposal to direct more money towards charter schools is a half a step in the right direction. The idea is that if a child leaves a district school to go to a charter school, some of the locally raised money goes with the student to the charter school. Is send local money to [...]
category: Charter schools, John LaPlante
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