“the school district has reached a tenative agreement with um South St. Paul Teacher Association for the contract period of July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2027. South St. Paul teachers voted in favor of the proposed contract on Tuesday, November 4th.”

“ensuring that we are supporting our teachers is very important. And so I just wanted to um congratulate both um you um Charlie as well as um as well as our teachers union um for coming up with an agreement that will honor their work as they um really are on the front lines to improve the lives of of students across our district.”

“the school district has reached a tenative agreement with the South St. Paul Principles Association for the contract period of July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2027. Um the principles voted in favor of the proposed contract on Wednesday, November 19th...”

“this just allows us to submit potential projects to the Department of Education who needs to review those comments and review those projects to make sure they're in line with uh MDE policy, state statute, etc.”

“we have some wonderful um well also historic facilities here at South St. Paul um that are in need of maintenance and every time um and if we wait um the more we wait the less projects we're going to be able to do. Um inflation is too high. Um but construction inflation is even higher.”

“every year we ask our teachers, what are some things that we could do differently uh to help our our students uh meet our packer pathways, the tri district caps programs or engage in real world learning, empower them uh and continue to empower them.”

“as part of the um new standards within the state um for social studies um ethnic studies is a requirement that all districts offer e an ethnic studies course in their high school.”

“the another state requirement um is that there for uh districts that have at least um 100 uh American Indian identifying students um that we start offering some sort of language”