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-Benjamin Franklin
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Repost: Choices for Parents- but not for Schools or Taxpayers?
Editor’s Note: This was originally published about a year ago (last March), but we’re publishing it again because the bill is coming due. We won’t know the amount until the school year is up and every school in the state has to figure out how much to bill other districts for, but permissive levy notices Read more
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Permissive Levy Estimates are Out
With taxable valuations now tentatively available, schools are publishing estimates of changes in the levies that no one other than the school board gets to vote on. Just in time for school board elections (Election Day: May 6th). It’s notable that these are estimates. They are not set in stone, and will not be finalized Read more
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Gander Didn’t Make it Back
The ice is out, and the island is waiting for nesting geese – but we’re getting ready to spend our first Summer here without Gander. He was slowed down last Summer when he left with the hatchlings – and we didn’t see him bring them all back for the last stop before they headed south. Read more
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Mia Love’s Favorite Economist
Mia Love joined the majority a week or so back. She was one of the great success stories of immigrant Americans, born to Haitian immigrants in New York, and becoming the first black Republican woman elected to congress. No Trump supporter, yet the Republican party grew in a way where she still fit with a Read more
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Colliding plasma ejections from the Sun generate huge geomagnetic storms − studying them will help scientists monitor future space weather
Shirsh Lata Soni, University of Michigan The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections collide, they can generate powerful geomagnetic storms that can lead to beautiful auroras but may disrupt satellites and Read more
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Why Literature Based Curriculum?
Trego School has recently shifted to literacy-based curriculum, especially for the younger students, and benefited from a grant from the Montana Masonic Foundation to help support this. This March, the school received $1,500 towards expanding the literature available to support their literacy-based program. The additional books will allow for more customization to student interests and… Read more
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