Montana Education Excellence

Paul Staso is asking all who hear about his latest endeavor, P.A.C.E. Trek 2008, to share the journey with as many public, private and homeschool teachers as possible – as well as any other youth leaders/directors of programs that may benefit.

“We don’t have any other option than to demonstrate to the court that the work is not yet done.”

Coccoli and Moore both said the main concern callers had was that the school would be allowing a special interest group – the Sonoran Institute – that has been accused of promoting anti-agricultural land-use policies in Montana and other states – to bring a potentially controversial speaker to the school.

One part of this plan is to provide career planning tools and identify high-skill, high-wage, and high demand occupations to serve as guides for students and educators in planning these current or emerging occupational opportunities.

Running did deliver a speech in Choteau that day, and it was a familiar one to anyone who’s heard him speak in recent months. It’s about climate change, mostly, but it’s also about people’s irrational reactions to bad news.

We find that ironic, as well as the fact that St. John canceled Running’s second speech to avoid controversy. Far worse than the pressure Choteau escaped by bowing to its most close-minded community members is the national attention that’s now embarrassing the entire school district. (and Montana)

The Montana Board of Public Education said last week it had made “significant progress on access to K-12 distance learning” in the form of a rule change recommended by an advisory committee.

The company, based in Wichita Falls, Texas, specializes in energy conservation management for schools and promises to save the district at least $3.7 million in energy costs over five years.

Our school leaders seem to be under the impression that high school students are not able to hear about what some deem "controversial topics" and form individual judgments. This raises the question of what exactly public high school education is. Is it the spoon-feeding of information to America’s next generation or is it presenting this generation with all the facts and allowing students to decide how those facts are interpreted?

To the Choteau school board and some of the Choteau community I hope you realize that our school is probably one of the few districts in the nation to deny a Nobel Peace Prize winner the right to speak to its students.

The best and brightest students in Montana could find a unique home at Montana Tech under a proposal by the chancellor.

Montanans don’t think a lot about "Homeland Security," but one Montana State University unit that serves both ag producers and home gardeners also serves to keep us safe from other biological invaders.