Sep 9, 2018

Volume V, Number 1, July 2018 >>>>> >Journal of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota<, Article #2 in a Multi-Article Series


Article #2

 

Percentage of Minneapolis Public Schools Students

Recording Grade Level Performance on MCAs: 

Disaggregated for Ethnicity and Gender

 

At present, the district of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) still formally operates under the Acceleration 2020 Strategic Plan(which took effect in August 2014 and was slated to prevail through academic year 2019-2020), forecasting growth in academic achievement at a rate of five percentage point gains per annum for the general student population and eight percentage point gains.  These gains were predicted in the absence of any objective factors justifying such a claim, in a manner reminiscent of Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s and early 1960s in the People’s Republic of China.  At a retreat in 2016, Michael Casserly of the Council of Great City Schools identified for members of the MPS Board of Education a key reason why their strategic plan was doomed:  He had never seen any plan based on the school as the unit of change work.

 

A struggling school district needs system-wide change, implemented with similar substance and vigor at all school sites.  Apparently, Ed Graff and his cabinet of departmental Chiefs are now at work on a strategic plan that will preempt and replace the miserable plan now formally in place.

 

A review of the brutal facts will give readers firm evidence as to why a new plan, which should incorporate my five-point plan for MPS overhaul, is desperately needed:

 

Percentage of Minneapolis Public Schools Students Recording Grade Level Performance on MCAs:

Disaggregated for Ethnicity and Gender

Academic Years Ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017

Math

                                                                2014             2015           2016           2017

African American 

                Male                                     22%               23%            21%            18%

                Female                                 22%               22%            21%               19%

Hispanic

Male                                     32%               33%             32%            29%

             Female                                 29%               30%            30%               28%      

 

 Native American/ American Indian

 

Male                                     20%               16%            16%            18%

              Female                                 25%               22%            21%               17%

Asian

Male                                     44%                 47%            45%               45%

              Female                                 51%               53%            54%               50%

White/ Caucasian

Male                                   77%                 78%           77%                77%

              Female                               77%                 78%           78%                77%

All Students

Male                                     43%               44%           43%                41%

Female                                 44%               44%           44%                43%

          Reading

                                                                2014             2015           2016           2017

African American 

                Male                                     19%               19%            19%            18%

                Female                                 25%               24%            23%               25%

Hispanic

Male                                     22%               23%            25%            23%

              Female                                25%               27%            28%               28%            

Native American/ American Indian

Male                                      18%               14%            15%            19%

              Female                                 24%               26%            26%               27%

Asian

Male                                      36%                 36%            39%               37%

              Female                                 45%               44%            51%               45%

White/ Caucasian

Male                                   75%                 74%           74%                75%

             Female                               81%                 80%           80%                81%

All Students

Male                                     39%               39%           40%                40%

Female                                 45%               45%           46%                47%

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