Local officials discuss possible amendment
to help close
education achievement gap
KSTP-TV [Minneapolis St. Paul],
by
Jessica Miles
Original Article
Posted By: voxpopuli,
1/13/2020 10:50:06 PM
The latest effort to eliminate Minnesota's achievement gap in education has some prominent supporters.
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page and Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari unveiled their proposal for a constitutional amendment.
The two said they want to truly put children first, adding the state's current education policies are a civil rights issue.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 1/13/2020 11:09:31 PM (No. 287797)
I can guarantee that they will make things worse.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Omen55 1/13/2020 11:14:31 PM (No. 287799)
If the teacher's union is against it that's a plus.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 1/13/2020 11:20:03 PM (No. 287807)
Not enough information given as to what the amendment would include. Mentions school vouchers, but surely there is more to it than that. BTW, "I am open to the conversation . . . " is such a vacuous response---means nothing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/13/2020 11:27:11 PM (No. 287812)
Vague feel good blather.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Northcross 1/13/2020 11:39:36 PM (No. 287815)
Wow. Put children first. Why didn't I think of that?
Now seriously, how do you close that gap if we are dealing with lower intelligence and lower motivation?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
smcchk 1/13/2020 11:50:20 PM (No. 287821)
The reporter neglected to say what the proposed amendment is but I am guessing it involves school choice, which I like, along with Alan Page.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
curious1 1/14/2020 12:06:07 AM (No. 287827)
Education in this country went downhill when government got involved. And that isn't a power given to them in the constitution.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/14/2020 12:17:34 AM (No. 287831)
They ever stop to think that CommieCore, indoctrination, and teacher unions are the problem? Of course not. They prefer math stateing 2+2=5 using a ream of paper, revisionist history, instruction of how to riot, and sex, sex, sex as the de jour topics of the education system. Give the teachers a raise "for the children". Indoctrinate them "for the children". Make them dumb "for the children". The best thing for them to do is to get rid of the unions and scrap CommieCore.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SALady 1/14/2020 12:59:36 AM (No. 287851)
The only way to make it "equal" is to dumb down the entire education process to the lowest common factors!!!
Don't teach anything above the most basic math (probably just addition and subtraction). Teach only to a 2nd grade level reading.
No history, not government, no nothing that gives the slowest children problems.
But, hey, that should guarantee a huge population of stupid lie-berals who will be living on the welfare plantation and voting for Demon-Rats forever!!! Which is ultimately what the "powers that be" in Minnesota want!!!
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The only thing that would cure the education problem is more parent involvement and I hate to tell you but the truth is the parents of these children could care less. Want proof? Go to a back to school night at any successful school. You can barely move the halls are so crowded, go to one in one of these neighborhoods in the inner city and you will find echos bouncing off the walls and teachers sitting in empty classrooms hoping that someone anyone will show up. You cannot legislate this problem away it is an internal cultural issue that has to be solved by the parents themselves. They need to demand discipline not fight it. They should be begging for homework. They should be asking for copies of curriculums and follow progress on a monthly basis. You think that is going to happen? Not likely.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/14/2020 5:18:21 AM (No. 287902)
Many of our greatest achievers never went beyond high school. They recognized that they knew more than their educators.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/14/2020 6:53:27 AM (No. 287962)
Never put the "judiciary" in charge of your school system. I know, I live in Little Rock.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
AltaD 1/14/2020 8:47:30 AM (No. 288066)
FTA: the teachers union, opposes the amendment stating, "the strategy paves the way for taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools, which may discriminate against certain students."
What? Just admit it, the union fears a loss of funding, power and control if parents are given the opportunity to use vouchers for private schools for their children.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
learner 1/14/2020 10:00:30 AM (No. 288157)
Any chance they want to start single sex Madrassas for terrorists in training? After all it is Mogadopolis.
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funny that blonde airhead reporter-girl didn't ask why the tests aren't given in Somali and Ebonics..