Beth Hawkins covered education and other public-policy topics for MinnPost from its launch in 2007 to October of 2015, when she left to write for Education Post, a nonprofit based in Chicago.
Lawmakers are considering making it easier for teachers from other states to get licenses to work in Minnesota. Funny thing: the Legislature passed a similar law four years ago.
The philosophical divide is driving a wedge between members of the education community who are typically allies.
Drafted in 2010, the bill would allow the board to take a majority vote to unseat any of its members “for proper cause.”
Between 2006 and 2012 at least 1 in 4 graduates of Minnesota public high schools who went to Minnesota colleges/universities had to take remedial courses.
What’s the difference between the current legislative session and the one that followed Dayton’s first inauguration? In a word: money.
Research shows that impact of taking dual-credit courses is especially profound for students who are low performing or come from low-income backgrounds.
On leaving MPS: “Making this decision was tough for me, but it was also easy. I did not want to be in a position where it’s stressful on the job and it’s stressful at home.”
Without the two FAIR schools to run, WMEP would reinvent itself as the go-to resource on race equity issues for its 11 member districts.
The plan contemplated by Rep. John Kline and his Senate counterpart, Tennessee’s Lamar Alexander, would essentially do away with federal oversight of schools.
Nathan Ringo authored a first-person account that was published in the popular online magazine BoingBoing.
This year, teacher voices began ringing out loud and clear when it came to driving education policy changes.
The resignation is effective Jan. 31. District CEO Michael Goar was appointed Johnson’s interim replacement.
Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson likes to say that culture will eat strategy for lunch. What if the culture she has been trying to change at MPS for four years has taken a fatal bite out of her once-bold strategy?
Next month, Monserrate will leave the MPS board after a single term — an experience that caused him to become skeptical that a sprawling institution like Minneapolis Public Schools can be turned around.
Called a performance assessment, the process of creating and defending a portfolio of work is designed to gauge a student’s readiness for college.
At Success Academy in New York, Eric Mahmoud had a pang of insight into how much better the Harvest Network of Schools could be doing.
If you are tracking efforts by MPS and other Minnesota districts to curb shocking disparities in punitive school discipline, you’ll want to spend a little time reading RiShawn Biddle’s writing.
District leaders see this week’s agreement with federal officials as an enhancement to a series of changes already under way.
“Our newest teachers aren’t learning to teach,” says Teacher of the Year Tom Rademacher. “They are learning how not to get fired.”
If the affidavits supplied to the Senate are accurate, the CSI contract still reeks. But a credible, logical version of events has finally emerged.
