As PACT breaks ground on a new building, a long-time student reminisces about the classrooms she knows so well I am presently a senior at PACT; this is my seventh year at this school. Everything that has been happening lately, leading up to and after the groundbreaking, has caused me to look back on all […]
For the best staff ever – If there was one wish in my heart, It would be that we never have to part. When I look up at the starry night sky I think of you shining and in happiness I cry.
This experience to nothing does compare, Like a family you really love and care. This school has truly survived its first test, Thank you all for making it the best.
Editors’ note: The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) recently approved a cooperative agreement between ARTech (Northfield) and Northfield High School, an arrangement that allows ARTech students to participate in the NHS athletic program. A great many charter schools in Minnesota are struggling to forge similar agreements with their local districts. In this piece, Nell, […]
Editors’ note: Kent Nerburn is a writer who lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. He has participated in the founding of Schoolcraft Learning Community and TrekNorth High School. He served as board chairperson of Schoolcraft for two years, and remains on their board as the last founding member. As a grizzled veteran of the charter school movement […]