This is good news. Sooner or later we have to rely on renewable energy, and I can’t think of a better way to promote it than to start with schools. Get young students in the habit of conservation; using less energy and finding alternatives to fossel fuel-driven products. To the students: You’re the future. It’s your planet also, and in not too many years, you’ll be responsible for what happens to it during your lifetime. Learn all you can now, so that you can leave a positive footprint for your children and their children. Hats off to the district for this move.

Wait…..I thought that even though the Mpls school district was spending MORE on EVERY PUPIL than ANY OTHER DISTRICT in the STATE, and had the HIGHEST DROPOUT RATES of ANY OTHER DISTRICT IN THE STATE, and how they were complaining constantly about the lack of STATE FUNDING, HOW were they able to JUSTIFY this ‘alternative’ expense?? Does this mean that kids won’t have pencils and paper for school? And some of you wonder WHY I don’t contribute to a ‘school’ fund when asked to by my employer. Hint: no such things even existed when I was in school, and NO, I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.