EDUCATION
District’s financial footing improving
Deer hunting stories did not deter the Wadena-Deer Creek school board from carrying out November business Monday night at the District 2155 offices, including hearing a favorable audit report.By Brian Hansel , November 20, 2009
Instant-Alert Messaging to begin at WDC
In an effort to improve communication with parents and staff, Wadena-Deer Creek Public Schools will begin to use School Messenger this month, an instant alert system developed by Honeywell. This system was contracted through the WDC Food Services program at the beginning of this school year.November 20, 2009
Schools make staffing changes
The Wadena-Deer Creek school board approved contracts for paraprofessionals Tracy Grabe and Sherri Kaufman and gave an assistant coaching contract to Luke Sturm, who will be part of the WDC girls’ basketball staff.By Brian Hansel , November 20, 2009
Author Horsager donates his book to WDC High School
November 20, 2009
Experimenting with CO2 gas at WDC
By Dana Pavek , November 20, 2009
Jamming with ‘Toucan Jam’
November 20, 2009
Skeleton parts
November 20, 2009
WDC Elementary honors Veterans Day winners
November 13, 2009
WDC High School salutes veterans
By Dana Pavek, WDC schools/Photos by Sara Hacking , November 13, 2009
Be my guest
November 13, 2009
Old WDC yearbooks for sale
The Wadena-Deer Creek Yearbook Staff is doing some early spring cleaning to make room for the May delivery of the 2010 WDC Yearbook! That means extra copies of previous yearbooks must go.November 06, 2009
WDC schools will honor veterans
November 06, 2009
WDC voters say yes. And yes.
By Brian Hansel , November 06, 2009
WDC's 'Hunchback'
By Sara Hacking , November 06, 2009
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OUR VOICES Chinese classes grow
Elsa Pan and students celebrate moon festival
Elsa Pan’s middle school students were among relatively few Minnesotans to celebrate the Chinese moon festival, eating moon cakes and
OUR VOICES Expect charter school bills
Minnesota legislators likely will look at bills increasing the accountability of charter schools. Recent reports of a Minneapolis charter school worker stealing $1 million will increase the efforts, according to Rep. John Lesch, DFL-St. Paul. “In these challenging economic times, with public
Posted by: Don Davis on Jun 15, 2009 at 1:36 PM | Capitol ChatterOUR VOICES 'Cooperate, don't consolidate'
Working together is a better solution for rural school woes than combining school districts, a Minnesota Center for Rural Policy and Development concludes. "A state policy should be developed to help foster collaboration with and between school districts," the new report says. "While
Posted by: Don Davis on May 7, 2009 at 12:05 PM | Capitol ChatterOUR VOICES Education funding approaches differ
Minnesota education funding plans by the House, Senate and Gov. Tim Pawlenty are similar in many ways, but the amount they spend – and how they plug a deficit – differ. A bill the House considered Thursday night would spend $13.7 billion on public education for the next two years, the s
Posted by: Don Davis on Apr 23, 2009 at 7:31 PM | Capitol ChatterOUR VOICES Early ed OK'd
Representatives voted 84-47 today to spare early-childhood programs from major budget cuts. The bill provides a 2 percent increase for many early-childhood program providers. And with more than 7,700 families on an early-childhood-care waiting list, it provides enough money to reduce that number by
Posted by: Don Davis on Apr 23, 2009 at 2:00 PM | Capitol ChatterOUR VOICES Teacher license change nixed
Professionals who want to become teachers may not have an easy route to receive teaching licenses after a House committee Wednesday rejected the proposal. The House K-12 Education Finance Division voted 11-10 to strip the provision from an overall education bill. During earlier testimony, teachers
Posted by: Don Davis on Apr 15, 2009 at 3:06 PM | Capitol ChatterOUR VOICES Senate chops schools budget
Sens. Lisa Fobbe, LeRoy Stumpf
Minnesota senators voted to chop public school budgets $273 per pupil Tuesday while opting to expand a program that pays teachers based on perf
OUR VOICES Senate schools budget: 3.2 percent cut
Sens. Dan Skogen and LeRoy Stumpf
Senate Democrats today proposed cutting education funding 3.2 percent, setting up parameters for school funding debate that will shar
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