Detroit Lakes Schools

Last week a Minnesota Legislative Committee received a report on the state of Florida’s educational reform model.  A few years ago, Florida was dealing with a huge disparity in the achievement levels of the various subgroups in their student population.  Minnesota is in a similar position today.  A couple of key components to Florida’s reform movement includes actually placing schools on an A through F grading scale largely dependent of course, on how their students performed on statewide tests.  Another piece to the Florida reform package is retaining those students who are not reading at grade level by the time they complete third grade.  In other words, if a third grade student is not reading at the third grade level at the completion of third grade, the student does not move on to fourth grade.  While these are only two parts to Florida’s multi-part educational reform package, the presentation showed significant gains coming from their state.  These gains have prompted some interest from Minnesota lawmakers and could surface during this current legislative session.

Due to the additional snow fall, school and buses in the Detroit Lakes Schools will starting 2 hours late today, Tuesday, December 21, 2010.

Detroit Lakes Schools will be dismissing today, Monday, December 20th at 2:30pm due to the inclement weather.  All after school and evening activities are postponed as well.

In an effort to use a variety of communication tools to relay school district information, we welcome you to the Detroit Lakes Schools blog, courtesy of the Detroit Lakes Newspapers.  We’ll be posting “blogs” or information occasionally that will relate to all ongoings of the school district.  We hope you like it!