URGENT ACTION ALERT

To Barton Parents:

Now is the time to contact School Board members and make our voices heard. In mid-July the School Board will meet to make new recommendations for change in the district. These changes will impact Barton. We want the Barton Open program to remain in its present location.

Write, call or meet with your School Board member by JULY 1.

To provide a community school for the East Harriet and King Field neighborhoods, a small group of people have proposed a “Lyndale/Barton Dual Campus” school. This proposal would use Barton’s building for a community school, and force Barton Open to move to another facility. This plan is disruptive to thousands of students, risky and costly. There are better ways to achieve MPS’ goals.

TALKING POINTS and other information that can be part of your letter or conversation are found on the right-hand side menus of this page.

TELL your School Board member:
The Dual Campus plan is unnecessarily distruptive, educationally and personally, to children from Barton Open, Lyndale and Ramsey schools. There are other, more reasonable, less costly solutions for providing a community school to families in East Harriet and King Field neighborhoods.

ASK your School Board member:
Are you willing to risk excellent programs and thousands of students’ academic achievement by supporting the complex Dual Campus proposal?

URGE your School Board member:
To sustain success by not supporting the Dual Campus proposal.

Minneapolis School Board Members:
Carla Bates 964-0310                
Pam Costain 668-0638     
Jill Davis 310-0199 
Lydia Lee 824-0893
Tom Madden 668-0631
Chris Stewart 668-0639
T. Williams 668-0629 

Mailing address:     Minneapolis Public Schools
                            807 N.E. Broadway
                            Minneapolis, MN  55413

Let's keep our message to the School Board focused on how best to achieve academic success for the most children.

Barton Leadership Council