With new manual in hand, changes coming for Missoula schools

Years from now, Missoulians may look back at the summer of 2011 as the season the walls began to crumble.

It is a seismic vision of change that the Missoula County Public Schools district now has in its hands, after all. But if it’s truly going to be earth-moving, then it has to start jumping off the print of an 84-page manual http://www.mcps.k12.mt.us/ to guide all-encompassing changes in Missoula education.

"This," said MCPS Superintendent Alex Apostle, "will not just go on a shelf and collect dust."

It would be expensive dust if it did.

"This" is the bound report, "Model of Change: A Framework for Education in the 21st Century," http://www.mcps.k12.mt.us/ the document that MCPS paid a consulting group $150,000 to produce over the past year.

By JAMIE KELLY of the Missoulian

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