Importance of Attending the MPS Board of Education Meeting, 10 April 2018 >>>>> With a Few Notes on My Own Presence and Message

This evening (10 April 2018) will occur the typical monthly second-Tuesday meeting of the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education.

 

If you care about K-12 education, please try to be in attendance.  

 

Nowhere in the United States is there a locally centralized school district under more intense scrutiny:

 

I have for approaching four years now had this iteration of the public schools in this nation under my highly trained lens, bringing an array of skills and contemporary endeavors to the task:   forty-five years teaching young people living at the urban core;  current seven-day-a-week commitment to the small-group instruction of students living in Minneapolis, especially the Northside;  multi-faceted effort (television show, academic journal, this blog, public appearances, formally conducted interviews) to bring knowledge-intensive education to K-12 systems of education;  research scholar with eight published books, including six works published within the last fifteen years, focused  on Taiwan and on topics pertinent to African American history and society;  these latter concerning African America include a concise general history and two works for the Minneapolis Urban League (State of African Americans 2004 and State of African Americans 2008);  and my current substantially complete works, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect and Fundamentals of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education

 

No one in the United States has taught in more situations, featuring students of more diverse ages at every level of education, from preschool through graduate study as have I.

 

No one in this nation understands more deeply and precisely the challenges faced by the urban poor.

 

No one brings to the mission of overhauling K-12 education the array of research skills, pedagogical effectiveness, or breadth of reading in all manner of subjects, including the history and organization of the public schools in the United States.

 

That is not an idle boast but a fact of high significance. 

 

Anyone who wishes to debate me to prove superior knowledge of K-12 education, please know that I am ready and eager for a formally refereed contest of public discourse at any time.

 

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 If you are able to attend this evening’s meeting, please do so.

 

I will as always be there and first up for the opening Public Comment portion and for as long thereafter as I can before I go administer to the students whom staff at the Minneapolis Public Schools academically abuse every day their feet hit the ground;  I will scurry off to run the New Salem Tuesday Tutoring program, then return about 8:00 PM which, given the many agenda times for the evening, will probably still leave one-three hours.

 

Below are a few particulars of this evening’s meeting of the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education.

 

Check back on this blog tomorrow for subtext, for an understanding of what you witnessed but without a great deal of experience would not have the ability to fully understand:     

 

Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Board of Education

Davis Center (MPS Central Offices)

1250 West Broadway Ave.

Minnesota 55411

Phone: 612.668.0200

Fax: 612.668.0195

 

Meeting of Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Davis Center Assembly Room, First Floor

 

Ed Graff, Superintendent of Schools

 

Board Members:

 

Siad Ali

Jenny Arneson

Kim Ellison

KerryJo Felder

Rebecca Gagnon

Nelson Inz

Ira Jourdain

Don Samuels

Bob Walser

Ben Jaeger, Student Representative

 

Topics Likely for Discussion:

 

CPS School Calendars

 

Heritage School Calendar

 

Time Adjustment Allocations

 

AchieveMpls MOU, 18‐19 Board Meeting Schedule

 

Establishing a Budget Process Advisory Committee

 

Amending Legislative Agenda

 

Discussion on assessments and  minimum programming

 

Approval of Collective Bargaining 

Agreement between MPS  and MFT