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New online communication tool ready

October 2, 2008

One of our ongoing goals at Mounds View Public Schools is to provide District families with frequent, consistent and open communication. This year, we'll introduce an improved parent portal called SchoolView, an online resource that will offer parents secure, electronic access to student records, including attendance reports, assignments, class schedules, grades, lunch balances and a host of other important information.

If you are a parent of a Mounds View Public Schools student, please watch your mail in the coming days for a letter explaining how you can access our new system. This letter will explain how to log into the SchoolView system to take advantage of this new communication resource that staff and teachers in all of our schools will be using very soon. For more information, please visit our web site at www.moundsviewschools.org.

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Keeping NCLB in perspective
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Summer School Talk in the mail this week
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Take an online parent survey evaluating Mounds View Messaging and Chalkboard Chatrooms [View]

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And the survey says . . .
More than 1,000 responses were collected through the survey and chatroom [View]

Safe schools, respectful students
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Mounds View following beef recall guidelines
All schools are following the USDA's request to place a hold on the beef. [View]

Think Summer
Registration is open now for great summer enrichment programs that begin in June. [View]

Despite decline, enrollment capture rate remains steady
Our schools consistently enroll 80 percent of all possible resident students each year. [View]

Thoughts on schools? Join our digital discussion
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A resolution for the new year
If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. [View]

Keeping the levy's promises
How is Mounds View spending the money? [View]