In the end, frontrunners benefited from record spending in MPS board race
Incumbent Rebecca Gagnon and former City Council Member Don Samuels won the four-way race for two at-large board seats.
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.
Incumbent Rebecca Gagnon and former City Council Member Don Samuels won the four-way race for two at-large board seats.
Amanda Ripley is the author of “The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way,” a best-seller since its 2013 release.
There is a tremendous amount of chatter on the interwebs. If you can tear yourself away from the election, I commend you to it.
According to campaign finance disclosures filed Tuesday, spending in the blazing hot four-way race for two citywide seats likely has surpassed $500,000.
A primer on a stranger-than-fiction campaign.
At the top of their lists are overall school funding, teacher quality, class size and curriculum and standards, a MinnCAN poll found.
It’s playing out in the southern half of south Minneapolis, where both candidates are well liked and respected.
There are any number of reasons why Henry deserves the spotlight, including impressive academic indicators. But it’s also because it’s at the epicenter of an effort near and dear to the Obamas’ hearts.
Educators and education policymakers talk all the time about persistence and grit and culturally relevant pedagogy. What about changing the prisms we look at children through?
“You all constantly claim you want community engagement,” law professor Nekima Levy-Pounds said. “But when we step up our voices are silenced.”
The Board of Teaching announced in April that it had finally created a “reciprocity” process for those with degrees from out-of-state teaching programs and would begin issuing licenses. It hasn’t.
The fund will make its first expenditure on mailers promoting two of the four candidates running in the election cycle’s hottest ticket, a four-way race for two at-large seats.
The letter calls on MPS leaders to explain why the contract was placed on the school board’s consent agenda, which by law is supposed to contain routine business matters.
Students and families are offered free tickets to plays at local theaters, as well as opportunities to stage productions, spend a week canoeing and tour colleges.
Cash and services raised this year by groups spending heavily on the board races — and there are just two red-hot contests — amount to nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
In scene after scene, adults systematically undermine the ambitions of this documentary’s four bright protagonists. The film screens here Oct. 1 and 2.
Pop quiz for politics junkies: What’s the most interesting thing about the roster of those supporting Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek’s re-election bid?
At 50, Outward Bound is active in the Twin Cities. Research is mounting that the “soft skills” experiences that a wilderness expedition imparts can have an immediate impact on academic achievement.
Hiawatha Academies, which opened its first K-4 school in 2007 in south Minneapolis and its first middle school five years later.
On Monday members of the group are expected to pack the Anoka-Hennepin school district’s school board meeting to speak against the adoption of a long-sought LGBT-affirming policy.
By Beth Hawkins
Sept. 18, 2014