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New School Ratings Released
SchoolDigger has released their new ratings – and in Eureka, Lincoln (not a) County High School has moved from the top edge of the bottom third in 2024 to almost making it into the top third. The difference between 65.4% and 32.8% in a single year is impressive. (In 2022, Lincoln (not a) County High School actually outperformed 68.4% of Montana’s high schools. The improved performance comes with a 10% drop in enrollment – SchoolDigger reports only 273 students in 2025, down from 305 in 2024. The Student/Teacher ratio went from 14.6 in 2024 to 13.2 in 2025. Correlation is…
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I spent most of a year away from the school after I finished my term. I attended a couple of board meetings because I was asked – on one hand, there was, at the least, the appearance of an unlawful board meeting . . . unlawful because it appeared to violate Montana’s open meeting law.…
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You don’t actually have to wait until the term is up to vote against the incumbent- this is something especially relevant for our area, as most of our officials are elected by acclamation. Nor, is the public at the mercy of whomever the county commissioners choose to appoint. Don’t like your appointed representative on a…
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I noticed that Jesse Jackson joined the majority this week, passing at 84. I remember 1988, when he finished the Democratic primary as the next candidate behind Dukakis – and ahead of Al Gore and Joe Biden. I was surveying down in Noxon, and pointed out that the folks down there didn’t seem to be…
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