Voters in all six AMSD districts going to the polls for referendums found support from their communities on Election Day 2018 with nine of ten referendum questions passing. Communities in Columbia Heights, Mahtomedi, Minneapolis, Robbinsdale, Rockford and Saint Paul all voted to approve referendum levies for students. The Mahtomedi, Minneapolis, Robbinsdale and Saint Paul School
Education matters. That was the message to AMSD from the two major party candidates for Minnesota governor on Oct. 5. The details matter as well. And it was those details that the two candidates shared — in detail — at AMSD’s monthly board meeting Oct. 5, when AMSD hosted Congressman Tim Walz, DFL, and Hennepin
AMSD Executive Director Scott Croonquist was a guest on WCCO Radio with Dave Lee on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018, for the segment “Big School District questions coming on November 6th.” Croonquist discussed the six AMSD districts with ballot referendums, and why referendums are important. Link: Read more about the six AMSD districts with 2018
Member Spotlight is a monthly feature in the AMSD Connections member newsletter. Principals rode school buses, slid down playground slides and solved math equations with students. District-level directors ate lunch amidst the masses in noisy cafeterias. Even the superintendent of schools sat with kindergarteners, singing and signing songs in Spanish. It was just one part of
Two AMSD schools — School of Engineering and Arts (Robbinsdale Area Schools) and Wayzata Central Middle School — have been named National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2018 by the U.S. Department of Education. The schools were chosen for their overall academic excellence or progress in closing achievement gaps among student groups. Schools are honored in one