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DULUTH
Grievance hearing exposes dysfunction on American Indian Parent Advisory Committee
A Nov. 19, 2025 post on the Facebook page for the Duluth Public Schools Indian Parent Committees read, “If you are interested in participating...
Eveleth
Rock Ridge student charged with three felonies for making terroristic threats at school
At 9:40 in the morning on April 3, 2024, Rock Ridge High School issued a “hold in place alert” to students and faculty. According...
Rock Ridge School District
Raucous Ridge, Part III: School board denied 61 percent of public speaking requests in 2021-22
The Rock Ridge School District was created in 2019, when the Virginia and Eveleth/Gilbert school districts merged. As the Monitor recently reported, for as...
Rock Ridge School District
Raucous Ridge, Part II: Stacey calls for backup
On July 1, 2020, when the Rock Ridge School Board held its first meeting, they had no official policies in place. Over the following...
Rock Ridge School District
Raucous Ridge: Minnesota’s newest school board silences citizens, crushes dissent, throws meetings into chaos
“Fiercely United.”
Official Motto of the Rock Ridge School District
Part I: The Censuring of Sorcan
On Nov. 14, 2022, at the school board meeting of the...
DULUTH
Say anything to get it built
Every new project that comes along in Duluth is supported by specific interest groups—for example, the Great Lakes Aquarium was vigorously supported by environmental...
DULUTH
School Board considers opening agenda sessions
Concerns about transparency have
long simmered within the Duluth school district, but several recent events have
brought the issue squarely into public view.
In August, citizens...
Duluth School District
Mysterious RFP revealed
“I can’t be responding to seven different people with seven different requests,” School District 709 Human Resources Director Tim Sworsky complained to the School...
DULUTH
School district stonewalls board’s request for information, again
The Duluth School District has recently come under fire for hiring an assistant superintendent with a criminal record, without informing the School Board of...
