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Other issues addressed: The new attendance policy, teacher tenure, seniority, & merit pay. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id161.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Re: Mpls Strib school board endorsements"><U><B>Re: [Mpls] Strib school board endorsements</b></U></A></div> <div> August 31, 2002  Comment on the Stribs anti-endorsements.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id162.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Re: Mpls MPS teacher study"><U><B>Re: [Mpls] MPS teacher study</b></U></A></div> <div> September 5, 2002  According to Linda Darling-Hammond, "In an analysis of 900 Texas school districts, Ronald Ferguson found that teachers’ expertise as measured by scores on a licensing examination, master's degrees, </div> <div> and experience—accounted for about 40% of the measured variance in students’ reading and mathematics achievement at grades 1 through 11, more than any other single factor..."  Citing unspecified longer-term studies, Minneapolis School Board director Dennis Schapiro writes that there are unspecified  "...long-term studies that indicate about 90 percent of longer-term achievement outcomes can be predicted by family and neighborhood variables."</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>