Dec 12, 2017

A View of Frontmatter, Contents, and Introductory Comments for the October 2017 Edition of >Journal of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota< for Blog Readers


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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