consolidation

The Carlton School Board clashed over whether and how to begin consolidation talks with the Wrenshall School Board during its meeting Monday, Jan. 28.

The Carlton School Board agreed on its first step in responding to the most recent letter in a series of notes with Wrenshall School District that started with a request from Carlton to re-enter discussions on the possibility of consolidation.

Why is consolidation of any kind being discussed? We have seven school districts in a county with 36,000 people. Carlton has around 422 students. The state of Minnesota sets up the rules of the game. For each student enrolled, the school district receives an allotment of money. The...

During its meeting Monday, Nov. 19, in Carlton, board members approved a resolution to acknowledge a letter from the Wrenshall School Board suggesting talks could resume after new board members take their seats in January. However, the resolution stopped short of agreeing to resume...

Three of the recurring themes throughout the report were financial concerns in the face of declining enrollment, support for consolidation and collaboration with other school districts and a strong wish that the School Board not pass anymore non-voter-approved levies. Ultimately,...

first Carlton opposes any discussion of consolidation with Wrenshall because they wanted to preserve their identity ...then approaches Cloquet about looking into consolidation? Something stinks here. Time to flush the school boards and actually vote in people actually willing to look...

Still, board members from both districts have insisted it was a good process and a sincere one, and left the two sides with a better understanding of each other’s position, even if they couldn’t reach a compromise to bring the two district’s together.

The Carlton School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, April 4, as a Committee of the Whole and the Wrenshall board will meet the following evening, April 5 (Editor's note: This special consolidation meeting has been changed to 7:30 p.m. April 12) to discuss tax implications of different...

More light is being shed on the exact process by which the Carlton and Wrenshall school districts might conceivably combine in the future. In response to a petition requesting consolidation submitted by citizens in November, Carlton County Auditor Paul Gassert has performed his statutory...