For those of you who haven’t been following along, there’s been a battle raging at Fargo North High School over a yearbook photo submitted by senior Josh Renville featuring himself holding a gun in front of the American flag (see to the right). The school disallowed the photo, and Josh’s father went to war (listen to…
Audio: Pro-Life Advocates Describe Their Beef With Fargo Public Schools
Yesterday news broke indicating that students and a pro-life group they belong to were seeking possible litigation against Fargo Public Schools for disallowing the creation of pro-life groups in two of the district’s schools. Today while guest hosting for Mike Kapel on WDAY AM970 in Fargo I had on Jocelyn Floyd from the Thomas Moore…
Health Gestapo Takes Aim At Fargo Culinary Students
At Fargo Davies High School in Fargo the students have a top-notch culinary class which runs, on a limited scale, a restaurant for students and the public. They were just profiled in the Fargo Forum, as a matter of fact. But recently these students learned that they were going to have to curtail their cooking excellence.…
Fargo School District To Spend Taxpayer Dollars Fighting School Choice, Protecting Common Core
Over at Watchdog I have an article up today about the Fargo Public School District (yes, the people who threatened to lower education quality after voters shot down property tax levy measure) vowing to lobby against school choice legislation and to protect Common Core. I’ve written pretty extensively about how ugly the Common Core issue…
Tyler Anderson: Why I'm Running For Fargo School Board
Hello. My name is Tyler Anderson, and I am running for a seat on the Fargo School Board. I’m excited to take this opportunity to give back to the community, and to ensure that our students, and our schools, are given the resources needed for success. First off, a little about me: Currently, I work…
Shocker: Fargo School Board Not Exactly Advertising Open Positions
After Fargo voters shot down a measure that would have allowed their school district to exceed the state’s property tax mills cap, school board members took to social and regular media to castigate voters. Board member Paul Meyers has been particularly outspoken, as you can see in this gratingly arrogant interview he gave to Chris…
Fargo School Board To Public: Give Us What We Want Or We'll Take It Out On Your Kids
American trust of all levels of government has declined over the last decade. And while local governments haven’t fared quite as bad as Washington DC, there’s no question that trust is down from where it was according to the Pew Foundation. If you need a case-in-point for why that trust is down, look no further…
Do Fargo Voters Expect The State To Keep Picking Up School Tab?
I was surprised to learn last night that Fargo voters had shot down an opportunity to keep their taxes high. Traditionally voters in that city seem to like taxing themselves, but this time around a majority showed up to tell the school district to lower their mill levy to the state-mandated cap. Last year the…
Read It: Agreement Between Valley News Live And Fargo Public Schools
I said pretty much all I had to say about this sorry spectacle last night, but if you want to read the agreement in which Valley News Live agrees to curtain their press freedoms in exchange for not being prosecuted, the full document is below. I finally received it this afternoon from the attorney representing…
Television Station Agrees Not To Mention School Security Story After They're Threatened With Prosecution
Late last year television station Valley News Live (full disclosure: I appear on their station frequently and have been paid to guest host) stirred controversy with an act of journalism that involved one of their reporters walking into Fargo/Moorhead area schools to test security. Reporter Mellaney Moore wanted to see how far she could get…