KEN: YOU'VE PROBABLY NOTICE DAYS ARE GETTING SHORTER, TEMPERATURES COOLER, AND TE YELLOW BUSES ARE BACK ON TE ROAD.

AND THAT MEANS FALL IS IN E AIR AND SCHOOL IS BACK IN SESSION.

I'M KEN BUEHLER.

THIS IS "IN BUSINESS."

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOG US.

BACK TO SCHOOL.

EVERYONE IS FEELING AT THIE OF YEAR.

FOR ME, BACK TO SCHOOL AS D WAS VERY TRAUMATIC.

IN THE SPRING TIME, THE ANM WAS BY THE ORIGINAL ROCK H, NO MORE PENCILS, NO MORE B, NO MORE TEACHERS, DIRTY LO- SCHOOL IS OUT FOR SUMMER!

SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER.

BY THE TIME FALL ROLLED AR, THAT ANTHEM RANG.

SCHOOL WAS NOT OUT FOREVER.

IT BARELY MADE IT THROUGH E SUMMER.

AND NOW IT WAS BACK TO SCH.

IT WAS EXPENSIVE.

EXPENSIVE NOW FOR PARENTS O SEND THEIR KIDS BACK TO SC.

NOT JUST WITH THE SCHOOL SUPPLIES BUT WITH THE FEESL THE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVIS AND THE CLOTHING THAT IS OY GOING TO LAST ONE YEAR.

THE AVERAGE RIGHT NOW IS 1O 200 DOLLARS PER STUDENT TOO BACK TO SCHOOL.

IMAGINE WHAT THAT IS LIKE R THE SCHOOL ITSELF.

EDUCATION IS BIG BUSINESS T IS EXPENSIVE BUSINESS AS WL AND THAT IS CONSTANTLY CHA.

AND THOSE CHANGES AFFECT EVERYBODY BECAUSE EITHER YU HAVE KIDS IN SCHOOL OR A TAXPAYER, YOU ARE PAYING FT OR DONATING TO YOUR FAVORIE ALMA MATER, EDUCATION IS BUSINESS.

THAT'S WHAT WE ARE TALKINGT THIS WEEK ON "IN BUSINESS."

TO FIND OUT THE CHALLENGESF BACK TO SCHOOL FOR THE 2027 SCHOOL SEASON NOW IN PROGR.

WHAT WAS THAT?

OH.

[LAUGHTER] I'M LATE FOR STUDY HALL.

♪ WELCOME TO "IN BUSINESS."

I'M KEN BUEHLER.

THIS WEEK WE ARE LOOKING AE BUSINESS OF SCHOOLS.

SCHOOLS ARE AN IMPORTANT PF OUR COMMUNITIES.

BUT THEY ARE ALSO BUSINESSS THAT HAVE TO MANAGE ENROLL, STAFFING, FUNDING AND THE T OF OPERATING.

WE ARE STARTING WITHIN YOUE A PRIVATE SCHOOL IN THE REN TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW ITT STARTED AND THE ISSUES THEY FACE.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK.

IT IS FALL, YOU CAN TELL BE FACT THAT THE DAYS ARE SHO, THE LEAVES ARE STARTING TON AND YELLOW SCHOOL BUSES ARK ON THE ROAD AS CHILDREN REN TO CLASS.

THAT IS OUR TOPIC THIS WEEN "IN BUSINESS."

THE BUSINESS OF SCHOOLS.

HERE WITH US AT STELLA MARS ACADEMY IS THE PRESIDENT OF STELLA MARIS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEINH US.

STELLA MARIS IS ITALIAN FOR START OF THE SEAS.

EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MEANS.

>> WE ARE ON BEAUTIFUL LAKE SUPERIOR AND OUR PATRONESSS MARY.

THAT IS ONE OF HER MANY NA.

STAR OF THE SEA WOULD BE AE FOR MARY.

THAT IS OUR NAMESAKE AND A REMINDER OF THE BEAUTIFUL E WE ARE IN.

KEN: TELL ME A LITTLE BIT T HOW THIS WAS FORMED, NOW YR 10TH YEAR AT STELLA MARIS.

>> IT'S AN EXCITING TIME F, THIS IS OUR 10 SCHOOL YEAR.

WHILE WE ARE A YOUNG SCHOOE HAVE A RICH HISTORY.

CATHOLIC EDUCATION HAS BEEN ALIVE IN DULUTH FOR OVER 10 YEARS, DUE TO THE BENEDICTD SISTERS' INVOLVEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY.

10 YEARS AGO, AFTER REALLY DECADES OF WORK AND PRAYERD THOUGHT, A RE-DEFINED WAY F CATHOLIC EDUCATION BEGAN.

AND THAT WAS LEAVING THE PAROCHIAL MODEL M CHURCH AD SCHOOL MODEL TO FORM A MORE UNIVERSAL COLLABORATIVE STRUCTURE.

SO WE ARE ONE SCHOOL WITH R CAMPUSES THAT SERVE THE ENE CITY OF DULUTH AND BEYOND.

WHEN STELLA MARIS FORMED, THERE -- IT WAS A PRESCHOOL THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE STRUCE BUT IT HAD STRATEGIC INTENS TO REDEVELOP A CATHOLIC HIH SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF DULU.

AND SO, THE BOARD IN 2021 E THAT COMMITMENT, SO WE LAUD OUR FIRST FRESHMAN CLASS IE FALL OF 2022.

AND WE GRADUATED THEM THIST SPRING.

KEN: A MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMEN.

>> IT WAS A MAJOR A COMPLIT IN THE SIMPLE FACT THAT WE ACCOMPLISHED A GOAL THAT WE STRIVED FOR WITH A GRADUATG SENIOR CLASS.

BUT IT ALSO GAVE THE COMMUY THIS RENEWED MOMENTUM AND I THINK TRUST INTO THE PROGRE HAVE DEVELOPED.

KEN: THE FUNDING FOR TRADIL PAROCHIAL EDUCATION COMES M TAXPAYERS AND THE TAX BASE, PRIVATE EDUCATION IN YOUR E COMES FROM WHAT SOURCES?

>> WE REALLY HAVE THREE REE STREAMS THAT WE WOULD CALL- THAT I WOULD IDENTIFY FOR E OPERATE OUR SCHOOL.

OUR LARGEST IS TUITION.

WE ARE A TUITION-BASED SCH.

THE SECOND LARGEST WOULD BT WE CALL ADVANCED MENTOR DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY MEMS AND ORGANIZATIONS ARE SAYIE BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU DO ANDT TO PARTICIPATE, SO THEY GIO EITHER RESTRICTED OR UNRESTRICTED CAUSE FOR AN ORGANIZATION.

AND THE THIRD IS THIS COMMY HAS 13 CATHOLIC PARISHES AD EACH OF THEM HAVE A PARTICIPATION AND BELIEF IT WE DO SO THERE'S PARISH INVESTMENT THAT HAPPENS AS.

THOSE THREE BUCKETS OF REV, JUST LIKE ANY SCHOOL, WE AE ALWAYS STRIVING TO DO MORED BE MORE EFFICIENT AND STRIG TO BETTER USE THE RESOURCET WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO STEWARD.

TUITION IS BY FAR THE LARG.

AND IT IS ALSO A COMMITMENT THAT WE HAVE AS AN ORGANIZN TO ENSURE THAT TUITION REMS AS LOW AS IT POSSIBLY CAN WITHOUT JEOPARDIZING THE VIABILITY AND OPERATIONS OR PROGRAM.

AND SO, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE ADVANCEMENT BUCKET OF REVE, HOW CAN WE INVITE PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE?

WHEN YOU ARE A GROWING SCH, THERE IS A MOMENTUM AND DEE TO DO THAT AND WE ARE THANL FOR THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE HD SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS TO WOK THROUGH OVER THE LAST FIVE0 YEARS.

KEN: UNLIKE WISCONSIN WHICS A SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAM, E PUBLIC SUPPORT OR THE STUDS GO WITH THE STUDENT, MINNEA DOES NOT HAVE THAT, BUT YOU STILL TAKE SOME OF THE SERS AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS.

>> RATE.

SCHOOL VOUCHERS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS A HOT TOPIC IN S ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

AND OUR COLLEAGUES IN PLACS LIKE INDIANA AND WISCONSIND FLORIDA WHERE THEY ARE VOUR STATES, THE EXPERIENCE DIFT KINDS OF CHALLENGES.

BUT IT DOES ALLEVIATE SOMEF THE FINANCIAL BURDEN THOSE SCHOOLS ARE EXPERIENCING.

MINNESOTA HAS NOT ADOPTED A VOUCHER BASED PROGRAM.

BUT REALLY LONG-STANDING STRUCTURES WERE PUT IN PLAE DECADES AGO -- 60 YEARS AG- THAT SAYS ESSENTIALLY REGAS OF WHERE YOU GO TO SCHOOL,E ARE CERTAIN TRUTHS AND NEES THAT EXIST.

AND THE STATE OF MINNESOTAT THAT TIME SAID WE CARE ABOL KIDS REGARDLESS OF WHERE TO TO SCHOOL.

WE ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE E SYSTEMS OR STRUCTURES OR TE ESSENTIAL SERVICES ARE AVAE TO ALL STUDENTS.

THAT WOULD BE THINGS LIKE TRANSPORTATION AND GETTINGO AND FROM SCHOOL.

SCHOOL NURSING SERVICES.

AND COUNSELING SERVICES FOH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

THOSE PROGRAMS IS WHAT THEE OF MINNESOTA CALLS THEM -- STELLA MARIS DOES TAKE PAR.

THEY ARE IMPORTANT SERVICES FOR OUR FAMILIES.

WE PARTNER WITH THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AS FISCAL AGENTS OFE SERVICES.

THOSE ARE COSTS THAT WOULD EXIST REGARDLESS OF WHERE E STUDENTS WENT TO SCHOOL.

IT IS NOT AN ADDED COST TO TAXPAYERS OR THE DISTRICT E STATE.

IT IS SIMPLY SAYING THERE N ALLOCATION BASED ON A PER L OR PER STUDENT FUNDING.

KEN: LET'S TALK ABOUT ENROT AND STUDENT GROWTH.

>> WE FEEL GROWING PAINS RT NOW, WE HAVE ADDED -- IN FE YEARS, ENROLLMENT HAS GONE UP 300 PLUS STUDENTS.

3% TO 6% ENROLLMENT GROWTH ANNUALLY IN THAT TIME.

AND I REALLY DO LOOK IN ADMIRATION TO MY PREDECESSD THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM AND BOARD THAT STARTED STELLA S TO SAY OUR PRIORITY IS GOIO BE, LET'S MAKE SURE THE FOUNDATION OF CATHOLIC EDUN AND THE MISSION OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION IS RELEASED -- REALLY SOUNDS AND WE WILL T BUILDING OUR FUTURE INITIAS LIKE A HIGH SCHOOL.

SO, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LH INTO KIND OF THIS NEW WORLF CATHOLIC EDUCATION IN STELA MARIS UNDER -- IN DULUTH UR AND ACADEMY.

UNDER STELLA MARIS ACADEMY.

I BELIEVE NIC AND I HEAR TT FAMILIES REALLY VALUE AND APPRECIATE THERE IS A GROUNDEDNESS IN HOW WE OPE, BECAUSE WE ARE SO FOCUSED N MISSION.

WE ARE NOT THE RIGHT SCHOOR EVERY FAMILY.

BUT WE KNOW WE ARE THE RIGT SCHOOL FOR A LOT OF FAMILI.

CONTINUING TO LEAN INTO WHE ARE AND WHAT OUR MISSION ID BEING INVITATIONAL TO ALL E FAMILIES, REGARDLESS OF WHE THEY ARE AT IN THEIR EDUCAL JOURNEY, FINANCIAL LIFE, FH LIFE THAT WE CAN BE A SPACT THEY CAN COME INTO AND IMME INTO.

KEN: RECENTLY WE SAW LAKEVW CHRISTIAN ACADEMY WHICH HAA LONG HISTORY HERE IN DULUTH CLOSED THEIR DOORS AND ENDD THEIR SCHOOL.

WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU ABT THE FRAGILITY OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND HOW DO YOU TAKE SOMETHING AWAY FROM THE, WO YOU LEARN FROM THAT?

>> WE WORK CLOSELY WITH THM AT LAKEVIEW AS THEY WERE MG THOSE TOUGH DECISIONS THIS.

AND JUST A REAL STANDUP GRF PEOPLE.

AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ISN IMPORTANT COMMODITY.

WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT T EXISTS INDEFINITELY.

THERE ARE CHALLENGES THAT E NOT -- THAT WE ARE NOT IMME TO.

I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT I'T KNOW, I'M NOT TRIBUTE TO LAKEVIEW'S SITUATION SPECIFICALLY, BUT WHEN I LT THE OPERATION IN THE BUSINF CATHOLIC EDUCATION AT STELA MARIS ACADEMY, WHEN WE LOOT RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS, G INCREASES OF 10 TO 15 PERCT ANNUALLY.

ADDED FOOD COSTS TO THE LUH PROGRAM, ALL OF THOSE COMMY INCREASES OR SERVICE INCRES OUT OF THE CONTROL OF OUR OPERATION, WE HAVE TO PAY M AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO NAVIA PATH TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE NECESSITIES.

AND WE STRIVE NOT TO PUT TT BURDEN SOLELY ON FAMILIES.

WE DO HAVE LIMITED REVENUE STREAMS, TUITION, ADVANCEMT AND PARISH INVESTMENTS THAE TO CONSIDER ADDED COSTS.

WE HAVE A STRUCTURE IN CATC EDUCATION THAT I AM GRATEFL FOR.

AND I BELIEVE THAT HELPS OR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS NOT JUST E AT STELLA MARIS BUT BEYOND.

BEING ABLE TO WEATHER SOMEF THOSE CHALLENGES MORE EFFECTIVELY THAN INDEPENDET SCHOOLS THAT DON'T HAVE THE SAME STRUCTURES IN PLACE.

WE HAVE A COMMUNITY OF 13 PARISHES ACROSS DULUTH AND THOUSANDS OF CATHOLICS WHO PRACTICE THEIR FAITH AND BE IN OUR MISSION.

AND WE HAVE A CONDUIT THAT BRINGS HIM TO THE TABLE TOR TO BE A PARTICIPATING -- WE PARTICIPATING IN WHAT OUR MISSION IS.

I CAN IMAGINE THE CHALLENGE WITHOUT HAVING THOSE STRUCS IN PLACE.

AND TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE E RISING COST TO DO BUSINESS.

BECAUSE IT'S VERY REAL.

>> THE PRESIDENT OF STELLAS HERE IN DULUTH, MINNESOTA,K YOU FOR BEING ON "IN BUSIN" >> IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE.

KEN: WE FOCUSING ON THE BUSINESS OF EDUCATION, FROM PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO PAROCHIL SCHOOLS COMING OUT TO THE G RED SCHOOL HOUSE UP ON THEL ON EVERY COMMUNITY, THE PUC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

TAXPAYER SUPPORT FOR EDUCAN IN AMERICA CAME WITH AN EAY SETTLERS GENERATE FIRST OFX AND 44, THE SMALL PURITAN T UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED TAXPAR SUPPORT OF EDUCATION THEIR COMMUNITY.

SINCE THE COVID SUMMER OF , JOHN MAGNUS LED THE DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT 709A SUPERINTENDENT.

HE CAME HERE FROM THE MUCH LARGER GREEN BAY WISCONSIN DISTRICT WHERE HE SERVED AS ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT.

HE OVERSEES THE DISTRICT O5 SCHOOLS SERVING OVER 8700 STUDENTS AND A BUDGET THATE WILL DISCUSS HERE AT OVER 6 MILLION.

HE'S ALSO BEEN AN ADVOCATER STUDENT SAFETY.

HE CAME OUT AGAINST POSSIE ACTIONS BYICE AND RECENTLY CHAMPIONED A POSITIVE CULTE THAT SAW 7:09 RECOGNIZED AE OF NINE DISTRICTS IN THE SE PRIORITIZING POSITIVE BEHAR INTERVENTIONS OF SUPPORT.

WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH FORG A GUEST ON "IN BUSINESS."

>> GREAT TO BE HERE.

KEN: WE JUST GOT BACK WITHG BACK TO SCHOOL, HOW THEY CD RECENTLY?

>> IT WAS AN AMAZING STARTO THE SCHOOL YEAR.

SUPER SMOOTH.

LOTS OF POSITIVE OPPORTUNI.

IT WAS A GREAT START TO THE YEAR.

KEN: WE ARE ECONOMICS OF CE ON "IN BUSINESS."

WE WILL FOCUS ON THE BUDGET BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT AN IMPOT REFERENDUM COMING UP ON THE BALLOT IN NOVEMBER.

WE'VE HAD THREE YEARS OF CS TOTALING ABOUT $12 MILLION.

WHAT WAS CUT AND HOW IS IT NOTICEABLE OR IS IT?

>> THE FIRST YEAR YOU ARE G CUTS, YOU DON'T NOTICE AS H BECAUSE YOU ARE THINGS AT E PERIPHERY.

THE SECOND YEAR YOU START GETTING INTO PEOPLE BECAUS% OF THE BUDGET IS STAFF SALS AND BENEFITS.

THIS THIRD YEAR WE ARE GETTING DEEP INTO THINGS AFFECTING CLASSROOM SIZE AD CUTTING ADMINISTRATION AND INTERVENTIONISTS, HAVING TO SOME DEEPER CUTS.

ULTIMATELY THE WIDTH OF CUE NEXT TWO YEARS, WE WANT TOE SURE WE ARE CLEAR ABOUT OPS HERE, WE CAN HAVE A TAX INE OR WE CAN HAVE FURTHER SEVE CUTS THAT FURTHER IMPACT OR EDUCATION.

KEN: WE HAVE TWO REFERENDUM QUESTIONS ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT.

THE FIRST ONE FIRST.

>> THE FIRST ONE ON THE AVE HOME OF $300,000 WOULD BE T DOLLARS PER MONTH.

AND WHAT THAT WILL DO IS IL ALLOW US TO STOP MAKING REDUCTIONS AFTER THIS NEXT.

WE'LL HAVE ONE MORE YEAR O5 MILLION REDUCTION AND AFTET WE WILL BE BALANCE ON THE T AND NOT HAVE TO REDUCE FUR.

THE SECOND QUESTION IS A SN DOLLAR A MONTH QUESTION ONE $300,000 HOME AND THAT WILL ALLOW US TO RESTORE SOME THINGS WE HAVE HAD TO REDUD THINGS WE WILL BE REDUCINGT YEAR.

NOT EVERYTHING BUT IT WILLW US TO PUT A FEW THINGS BAC.

KEN: THOSE ARE THE2 QUESTI.

IT'S LIKE A ONE-ON-ONE BONN BASKETBALL.

EXPLAIN THAT.

>> BASICALLY THE FIRST QUEN HAS TO PASS.

IN ORDER FOR THE SECOND QUN TO BE CONSIDERED.

AND REALLY IT WOULD NOT MAE SENSE FOR TO START ADDING S BACK IF WE ARE CUTTING ANDR AREA SO IT IS CONTINGENT OE ANOTHER.

KEN: JOHN MAGNUS AS OUR GU, THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DULUH SCHOOL DISTRICT 709, THE UPCOMING -- WE ARE DISCUSSG THE UPCOMING ELECTION NOVER AND THE REFERENDUM ON THER.

WE HAVE THE TWO WE JUST TAD ABOUT.

THERE'S ALSO A STATEWIDE REFERENDUM AS WELL THAT ALO BENEFITS DULUTH.

>> THERE'S A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CHANGE THAT WOULD INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF MONE GET FROM THE PERMANENT SCHL FUND.

IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE O CLEARLY CONSIDER THAT.

BUT PLEASE KNOW THAT WOULDE THE DISTRICT ABOUT $280,00R YEAR WHEN WE ARE TALKING AA $5 MILLION BUDGET REDUCTIOO IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US BUT T DOES NOT FIX THE FINANCIAL PICTURE AND THE STRUCTURAL DEFICIT WE HAVE IS PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE TAXES AND TE 2.7% WE GOT FROM THE STATED FUNDING COMPARED TO THE 15E HAVE IN INCREASED COSTS WIH FUEL, TRANSPORTATION, AND H CARE AND OTHER MEANS.

>> LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT TH, THE FIRST TWO REFERENDUM QUESTIONS WILL COST TAXPAYS TAXPAYERS WHETHER YOU ARE A PROPERTY OWNER OR A BUSINES OWNER WITH REAL ESTATE OR N PROBABLY IF YOU ARE AN APAT RENTER.

THE OWNER WILL PAY MORE ANT WILL BE PASSED DOWN TO YOU.

THE THIRD ONE DOES NOT AFFT TAXPAYERS BUT IT DOES DISTE MORE OF THAT MONEY.

WE ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO CONSIDER.

I CAN'T SAY VOTE YES OR ABO BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOO UNDERSTAND THERE'S EITHER G TO BE AN INCREASE IN TAXESA VERY SERIOUS REDUCTION IN SERVICES OF 12 MILLION A.

>> ONE OF THE THINGS IN QUN ONE IS MORE MONEY WILL GO INTO EDUCATION BECAUSE OF E PAIN DOWN OF DEBT, WHAT THT WILL BE ELIMINATED IN THE T REFERENDUM SECOND YEAR?

>> ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO THERS A VERY EXTENSIVE LONG-TERM FACILITIES PROJECT TO CONSOLIDATE AND UPDATE SCH.

A LOT OF PEOPLE REFERRED TO THAT.

BASICALLY THAT IS SOMETHINT THAT IS FINALLY BEING RETI.

A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK ABOUT AS VOTERS AND BRING THAT US ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I K ABOUT WHEN IT COMES TO PUBC TRUST BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FS TO REMEMBER WE WERE NOT PAF THE ADMINISTRATION THAT MAE THOSE CHOICES.

THE STUDENTS WE HAVE GRADUG TODAY WERE NOT EVEN BORN WN THAT PLAN HAPPENED SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO THINK ABOUT NT JUST THE PAST BUT THINK ABT TODAY AND INTO THE FUTURE O MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE STUDS GRADUATING THAT ARE SUPPORE OF OUR ECONOMY IN DULUTH AN BOLSTER THE ECONOMY AND TAE OF DULUTH.

KEN: BEFORE WE GET TO PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS ABT EDUCATION AND TAXATION, L'O BACK TO THE BOND PAYOFF.

WAS THE ORIGINAL BONDING WN IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT WAS O EXPIRE AND GO -- AND THE TX LEVY ON THAT WOULD CONTINU?

>> IT WAS WRITTEN IN SO BASICALLY THE -- -- ONCE TS WERE PAID OFF, THERE WERE OPPORTUNITIES TO PUT MORE S IN PLACE THROUGH LEVY THATD FURTHER FUND EDUCATION OR E REDUCTION IN TAXES.

NOW WE ARE AT A PLACE WHERE CAN MAKE A CHOICE AS A COMY , DO WE WANT TO HAVE LOWERS OR DO WE WANT TO FURTHER FD THE SCHOOLS IN A WAY THAT Y NEED.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THEE THREE ENTITIES THAT CAN AFT THE TAXES -- THE CITY, COUY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT.

THE CITY AND COUNTY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO GO TO E VOTERS TO GET PERMISSION FR INCREASING TAXES, WHERE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES.

OFTEN TIMES PEOPLE VIEW THR ONLY CHOICE IN EFFECTING TS AS VOTING YES OR NO ON SCHL REFERENDA.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER SCHOOLS IN THAT TRIAD OF SERVICES NEEDED.

KEN: LET'S TALK ABOUT EDUCN FROM A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE U WILL, THE VALUE OF AN EDUCN AND SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE VALUE OF TEACHING CHILDRENE A PART OF THE WORLD -- IS E A COST OBVIOUSLY TO THAT?

BUT WHAT IS THE BENEFIT?

>> SOCIETALLY WE WANT TO ME SURE PEOPLE ARE WELL EDUCAD AND ABLE TO MAKE GOOD CHOIS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIET I THINK WE ALSO THINK ABOUW IT AFFECTS THE ECONOMY ANDE TALKED TO DIFFERENT PEOPLEI WORK WITHIN THE CHAMBER AND OTHER BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT GROUPS AND WHEN IT COMES DO IT, IF BUSINESSES CONSIDER DULUTH, THEY WANT TO MAKE E WE ARE DEVELOPMENT READY AD THAT MEANS WE HAVE GOOD SCS AND GOOD GRADUATES WHO ARE GRADUATING AT HIGH RATES.

RIGHT NOW THE GRADUATION RS ARE GOING UP.

ENROLLMENT IS GOING UP.

LITERACY RATES ARE GOING U. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE TO CONTINUE THAT.

KEN: FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, DO WE HAVE TO GO BACK AGAIR MORE MONEY?

>> I HOPE WE WOULDN'T AND E THIS SETS UP IN A GOOD PLAO SUPPORT KIDS INTO THE FUTUD PREPARE DULUTH FOR THE FUTT DESERVES.

KEN: JOHN, THANK YOU VERY .

THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DISTT 709 HERE IN DULUTH.

PRIVATE SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN T OF THE TWIN PORTS COMMITTER GENERATIONS.

NEXT WE VISIT A PRIVATE SCL WITH A LONG HISTORY IN THE REGION AND SEE HOW IT HAS CHANGED AND WHAT IT TAKES O CONTINUE SERVING STUDENTS .

>> MY NAME IS ANTHONY P., MARSHALL SCHOOL IS A K-12 INDEPENDENT BOARDING AND DY SCHOOL IN DULUTH, MINNESOT.

WHAT MAKES MARSHALL VI DIFS WE ARE A MISSION-BASED SCHO INSPIRE LIFELONG LEARNERS O EMBRACE CHALLENGE AND CREAE POSITIVE CHANGE.

ALL PROGRAMS ARE BUILT AROD THAT.

SOME OF OUR PROGRAMMING ISY DIFFERENT.

WE HAVE A K-4 SCHOOL.

THEY SPENT 80% OF THEIR TIE OUTDOORS LEARNING.

FOR THEM, OUR 40 ACRES IS R CLASSROOM.

THEY GET TO LEARN SCIENCE N BREWERY CREEK BY DOING EXPERIMENTS.

THEY GOT TO LEARN MATH BY HANGING FROM PEMEX AND FIGG OUT HOW LOW THEY WILL HANG.

IT IS A JOYFUL K-4 SCHOOL.

WE GET THEM FOCUSED ON EXPLORING.

EXPLORING WHAT'S AROUND TH.

OUR BOARDING PROGRAM IS VEY UNIQUE AS WELL.

WE HAVE BORDERS FROM BOTH DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONALM VARIOUS COUNTRIES.

THE U.K.

REPRESENTATIVE, WE HAVE VIETNAM, WE HAVE C. WE HAVE HAD AT VARIOUS POIS STUDENTS FROM SPAIN AND MEO AND THE PHILIPPINES, AND IS AN INCREDIBLE RICHNESS TO R COMMUNITY.

THEIR STORIES AND EXPERIENS AND CULTURE ARE PART OF WHE CELEBRATE EVERY DAY AND LEN ABOUT.

HAVE A -- WE HAVE A 120 YEAR HISTORY.

WE STARTED AS A CATHEDRAL.

A BIG CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL.

IN 1976, THE DIOCESE WAS GG TO CLOSE THE SCHOOL AND THE WERE A GROUP OF PARENTS THT SAID, NO, WE WANT THE SCHOO EXIST.

THEY REESTABLISHED IT AS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ANDY BUILT AN INDEPENDENT BOARDD WE BECAME MARSHALL SCHOOL BECAUSE OF THEIR EFFORTS.

A LOT OF THE EARLY FOUNDERS WERE BUSINESS PEOPLE.

THEY DID NOT NECESSARILY HE THEIR CHILDREN AT THE SCHO.

BUT WHAT THEY WANTED WAS AN OPTION FOR THEIR EMPLOYEESR EXECUTIVES, SOME OF THE CHALLENGES RUNNING INDEPENT SCHOOL, WE ARE FUNDED INDEPENDENTLY THROUGH TUITN AND PHILANTHROPY.

AND WE DO NOT RECEIVE TAX DOLLARS, EXCEPT FOR SOME SL BENEFITS THAT GO TO HELP WH BOOKS AND TO PAY FOR A NURD OUR COUNSELOR.

BUT WE HAVE TO STAND ON OU.

SO THAT INVOLVES ATTRACTING STUDENTS TO OUR SCHOOL BUTO MAKING SURE THAT OUR CONVERSATION WITH DONORS TS ABOUT THE LONGEVITY OF THE SCHOOL AND WHAT THE SCHOOLN DO FOR STUDENTS.

THEY ARE EXCITED TO DONATEO HELP MAKE THE MISSION POSS.

ABOUT 80% OF OUR OPERATING BUDGET COMES FROM TUITION.

IT'S TUITION DOLLARS WE ARE CHARGING.

ABOUT 20% COMES FROM PHILANTHROPY.

WE HAVE AN ENDOWMENT.

PART OF THAT ENDOWMENT GOEO FUNDING LIKE FINANCIAL AID SUPPORT TO MAKE SURE THIS EDUCATION REMAINS ACCESSIBR THE LARGEST GROUP OF PEOPL.

SOME OF THE CHALLENGES AREL AROUND DEMOGRAPHICS.

JUST THE SIZE -- THE NUMBEF STUDENTS WE HAVE.

INCREASINGLY OUR FREE OPTIS AND CHARTER SCHOOLS.

A LOT OF STUDENTS ARE MOVIO ONLINE.

WE BELIEVE IN THE IMPORTANF BEING HERE IN PERSON.

OF BEING HERE FIVE DAYS A K AND THAT REALLY GOT STUDENS READY FOR COLLEGE AND BEYO- GETS STUDENTS READY FOR COE AND BEYOND.

WE HAVE A MODEL THAT IS CHALLENGING TO SUPPORT.

BUT WELL WORTH IT.

THAT IS WITH THE FAMILIES N TO UNDERSTAND AND CERTAINLR DONORS UNDERSTAND.

TO WANT THIS TYPE OF EDUCAN IS WHAT SUPPORTING THIS MO.

BEING PART OF THIS COMMUNI, JUST A JOY, IT IS AN INCREE COMMUNITY OF KIDS AND TEAC, AND WE ARE ALL LEARNERS.

WE GOT TO BE LEARNERS TOGER AND GROW TOGETHER.

AND THAT NEVER GETS OLD.

KEN: I'M KEN BUEHLER.

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