Scott Wente writes in the Woodbury Bulletin: “Panel balks at District 833 plan to acquire Crosswinds school.” This headline is really not accurate, the subhead does much more justice to the events of last night’s EMID Board meeting: “South Washington County Schools submitted an incomplete plan to take over the Crosswinds school in Woodbury, but had faced a tight deadline and was granted more time to develop its proposal.”

A divided EMID board gave District 833 and certain other organizations that want to continue running Crosswinds about a month to prepare proposals for the school’s future. District 833 had been considered the sole suitor for the school.

EMID board members who supported broadening the search for a new Crosswinds operator said that move should not be viewed as a vote against District 833. Rather, they said, EMID needs to consider all of its options and acknowledged giving District 833 little time to prepare its initial proposal.

Note the picture that accompanied the article, the videos should be posted on EMID Families some time soon.