Minnesota: Charter School Hires Outspoken Critic
Rob Levine, charter skeptic, photographer, and charter critic, recently discovered that the Hmong College Prep Academy had hired one of its loudest critics. He writes:...
Category : Minnesota
Sarah Lahm: Overwhelmed by Choice and Shrinking Budgets, Minnesota Turns to Community Schools
Minneapolis-based journalist Sarah Lahm writes about Minnesota as a pioneer in the school choice movement, but the state is now awash in choice and disruption....
Minnesota: Time for the Failed “Reformers” to Leave the Schools Alone
After thirty years of devotion to “reform” (aka, deform or disruption), reform leaders in Minnesota are proposing a state constitutional amendment that will install more...
Laura Chapman: When Bankers Lead Education “Reform”
Our brilliant reader Laura Chapman, retired educator, decided to dig deep into the politics of education reform in Minnesota in response to a post about...
Education Law Center: Minnesota Considers Constitutional Amendment That Threatens Student Rights
Imagine a state that adopts a state constitutional amendment that ties student rights to an education to their test scores. Would anyone be so dumb...
St. Paul, Minnesota: Teachers Strike to Demand More Investment in Services for Their Student
(FORGIVE MY SENIOR MOMENT–BEING SO UPSET WITH THE DAY’S NEWS, I MISTAKENLY PLACED ST. PAUL IN THE WRONG STATE, WHEN I KNOW IT IS ONE...
Sarah Lahm: Will St. Paul, Minnesota, Strike and Join the #Red4Ed Movement on Behalf of Their Students?
Sarah Lahm writes here that teachers in St. Paul, Minnesota, are on the verge of striking to secure better funding for the public schools and...
How a Minnesota Foundation Wasted $45 Million on a Failed Plan to Reform Teacher Education
Rob Levine, a Resistance-to-Privatization blogger in Minneapolis, reports here on the failure of the Bush Foundation’s bold “teacher effectiveness” initiative, which cost $45 million. All...
Sarah Lahm: Why Democrats Should Speak Out Against Nonprofit Charter Schools
Sarah Lahm writes about education in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis. In this post, she says that Democratic candidates should speak out against nonprofit charters....
St. Paul: Will a Historic Church Be Razed to Make Room for a Segregated White Charter School?
Sarah Lahm wrote in The Progressive about a community battle in St. Paul, Minnesota, over the fate of a historic church building. The church...