Volume IV, No. 4 October 2017
Journal
of the K-12 Revolution
Essays and
Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Publication of the New Salem Educational
Initiative
Gary Marvin Davison, Editor
Understanding Key Current Facets of
the
Minneapolis Public Schools:
Davis Center (Central Office) Staff
and
Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Negotiating
Platform
A Five-Article Series
Gary Marvin Davison, Ph. D.
Director, New Salem Educational Initiative
New Salem Educational Initiative
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Understanding Key Current Facets of the
Minneapolis Public Schools:
Davis Center (Central Office) Staff
and
Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Negotiating
Platform
A Five-Article Series
Copyright
© 2017 by Gary Marvin Davison
New Salem Educational Initiative
Contents
Article #1 Introductory Comments
Article #2 The Ability of Michael Thomas, Eric Moore, and 3
Cecilia Saddler to Grasp the Importance of a
Knowledge-Intensive, Skill-Replete K-12
Education Will Determine Their Futures at
the Minneapolis Public Schools
Article #3 Positions and Salaries of Staff at the Davis Center 9
(Minneapolis
Public Schools Central Offices,
1250 West
Broadway) as of December 2018
Article #4 Those
Making a Salary of $100,000 or 23
More at the Minneapolis Public Schools
Should Now Vow to
Earn That Level of
Remuneration or
Make Their Exit---
with a Special Note on
Michael Walker, Anna Ross, and Terry Henry
Article #5 Evaluation
of the Minneapolis Federation of 26
Teachers (MFT)10-Point
Platform >>>>>
Neither Common Nor
Intellectual Sense, and
Certainly Not for
the Common Good
Article #1
Introductory
Comments
Due to my six-week sojourn in Dallas following the death of my mother
on 16 September 2017, I was delayed in issuing this October 2017 edition of Journal
of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and
Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota;
this issue now comes to you, dear readers, at the same time as the
November 2017 and December 2017 editions.
With the issuance of the December 2017 edition at the midpoint of the
latter month, the publication schedule for the journal is now in synch with
calendric dates.
Since I am issuing the three editions simultaneously, I am allowing
myself the conceit of an anachronism in this first of the three editions,
presenting in this October 2017 edition data that I collected early in the
month of December 2017. This gives you
data, then, that are very current, with some significant differences by
comparison to the data that would have been presented in the calendric month of
October 2017. My main reason for
handling the material this way is to give myself an opportunity to give you a
chance to read in the December edition a series of essays that are
philosophical and psychological in nature, with quite a few thoughts that are
appropriate to the season of Christmas.
For me, both Christmas and the approaching New Year are enormously
symbolic; at their best and most
well-considered, they are opportunities to contemplate meaning, purpose, and
the beginning of a new annum in the hope that we will move forward in commitment
to those endeavors capable of promoting the common good.
Those more philosophical and psychological ruminations, then, await you
readers in the December edition. This
edition provides a bevy of data on staff at the Davis Center at 1250 West
Broadway in Minneapolis, housing the central offices of the Minneapolis Public
Schools. The first of the four articles
(Article #2) succeeding this one gives the leadership structure that has been
established under Superintendent Ed Graff one and a half years into his tenure. Article #3 highlights the positions held by
Michael Thomas, Eric Moore, and Cecilia Saddler that are most germane to the
academic program of the Minneapolis Public Schools. Article #4 focuses on those positions for
which the occupants are paid $100,000 or more, contextualizing these salaries
with the most current data on individual and household median income figures in
the United States. And Article #5 closes
this edition of Journal of the K-12 Revolution:
Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota with a
presentation of the bargaining position of the Minneapolis Federation of
Teachers (MFT) in the negotiations now transpiring, with comment on the
deleterious ideological underpinnings of the MFT platform.
Hence, my readers, this edition is particularly generous with factual
information, of a kind that you will get nowhere else for a locally centralized
school district across the United States.
Much of this data will soon appear in my nearly complete book, Understanding
the Minneapolis Public Schools: Current
Condition, Future Prospect, also a seminal effort in the larger
commitment to overhaul the Minneapolis Public Schools so as to provide a model
for excellent education as imparted by the locally centralized school district.
My great thanks to you, my readers, for your support and for your
abiding interest in this most important mission possible: the creation of truly excellent K-12
institutions that will give our precious young people the opportunity to live
as culturally enriched, civically prepared, and professionally satisfied citizens.
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