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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