Only Local Citzen Activism Can Promote the K-12 Revolution >>>>> Witness the Litany of Failed Programs and People Among Would-Be Leaders

The only meaningful action for one who endeavors to overhaul K-12 education will be invested at the local level.

 

Perpend:

 

>>>>>    No Child Left Behind tanked under pressure of adverse winds blowing in from left and right.   

 

>>>>>    The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs) have been vitiated by the rhetoric and actions of Mark Dayton and Brenda Cassellius.

 

>>>>>    The Multiple Measurement Rating System and its successor, the North Star Accountability

System, are murky replacements for the clarity of focus on MCA results,  so that the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is perpetrating fraud on the children of Minnesota and anyone who truly cares about them.

 

>>>>>    The Every Student Succeeds Act is a weak federal initiative that in local iteration becomes the fraudulent North Star Accountability System.

 

>>>>>    DFL members of the Minnesota Legislature are bought and paid for by Education Minnesota;  Republicans are philosophically bereft or would actually prefer that public education be taken over by private entities.

 

>>>>>    A bevy of people who feign interest in public education have either come and gone in their brief purported effort for change  or continue to operate on the periphery of the issues that go to the core of the K-12 dilemma;  these people include the following:

 

Tim Pawlenty, Cheri Pierson Yecke, R. T. Rybak,  Sandra Vargas, Kathy Saltzman, Steve Young, Mitch Pearlstein, Katherine Kersten, Ted Kolderie. Scott Gillespie, Doug Tice, David Banks, Steve Brandt, Alejandra Matos, Beena Raghavendran, Faiza Mahamud,  Peter Hutchinson, Carol Johnson, Bill Green, Bernadeia Johnson, Michael Goar, Daniel Sellers, and Crystal Brakke. 

 

Every one of these people are now absent or currently culpable for their feigned interest or errant focus.

 

Thus, any meaningful action for the needed overhaul of K-12 education will be at the level of the locally centralized school district.  Federal and state government provide funds and certain guidelines for civil rights and gender equity, but no guidance, program, or policy that will ever be effective in promoting the needed transformation.

 

And since both administrators and teachers in the locally centralized school district are the intellectually corrupt products of those campus derelicts known ad education professors, the needed program for change will have to come from citizens who read deeply in the history and philosophy of education, design the needed program of overhaul, and apply the pressure for the needed transformation.

 

Only local action will make the needed change in K-12 education, and that action must come from an informed and activist citizenry.