Yohuru Williams: The Words of John Lewis Inspire Creation of Coalition to Get into “Good Trouble”
Yohuru Williams is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas in St.Paul, Minnesota. He is a noted scholar...
Category : Minneapolis
Jan Resseger: Time to Stop Using Armed Police in Schools
Jan Resseger writes here about the decision by Minneapolis and other school districts to remove police from the schools. She begins: In the aftermath of...
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...
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...
Rob Levine: How Charters Kill Public Schools, the Example of Minneapolis
Rob Levine, a critic of Ed Deform, created a website called edhivemn.com that tracks funding of education reform orgs in MN – and it has a feature...
Rob Levine: Charter School Praised by “New York Times” Is in Academic Distress (LINK ADDED)
Last June, the New York Times published a gushing piece about the success of a segregated charter school in Minneapolis. The author, Conor Williams of...
LINK Added! Philadelphia: Non-Diverse Charter School Appeals Against Conditions on Its Renewal, Wants to Maintain White Majority
Ah, remember the old days of saving poor black kids from failing schools? Here is a charter school in Philadelphia that won a renewal on...
Sarah Lahm: The Story Behind the Minneapolis Charter School Lauded in the New York Times
Sarah Lahm is an independent journalist based in Minneapolis. Her work has appeared in The Progressive, In These Times and other local and national publications....
Sarah Lahm: By 2040, Will Minneapolis Have Any Public Schools?
Minneapolis blogger Sarah Lahm carefully read the “Master Plan” for Minneapolis, which goes into detail about the city of the future, and discovered that the...
Should Liberals Love Non-Union, Segregated Charters?
The New York Times published an opinion article yesterday by Conor P. Williams of the New America Foundation, in which Williams argues that liberals should...