School Board Elections: What does it mean for the Red Plan?

On paper, school board elections resulted in a 2-2 tie between Red Plan and Non-Red Plan supporters on November 3rd. School board incumbents Laura Condon and Nancy Nilsen were ousted from their respective seats on the board. Laura Condon lost of Art Johnson and Nancy Nilsen lost her spot to Tom Kasper.

Mary L. Cameron (i)and Ann Wason (i),both supporters of the Red Plan,retained their spots on the school board therefore balancing the support for the much debated long-range facilities plan.

Red Plan challengers were not able to gain the 3-1 majority they had hoped to gain on the school board, and therefore progress regarding the Red Plan will most likely continue in the coming months and years, relatively uninterrupted.

Senior Ryan Gallagher said, "We are too far into the Red Plan to turn back now. We need to stop fighting over it and do it, because something has to be done now."

According to the Duluth News Tribune, the Red Plan will leave the Duluth Public School District with two high schools, two middle schools and nine elementary schools. Work on the plan has long since begun around the city and even with the two new additions to the school board it seems inevitable that the long range facilities plan will be the future for ISD #709.

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