Apr 3, 2019

Article #1 from >Volume V, No. 7, January 2019, >Journal of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota<: Stark Culpability of MPS Associate Superintendents for Low Rates of Academic Proficiency


Article #1

Introductory Comments:

The General Pattern of Low Proficiency

in the

Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS)

Through

Academic Years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018

 

The general pattern through academic years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 in the high schools of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) has been the prevalence of low rates of academic proficiency and failure to make any progress, even from such a low starting point.

 

Associate Superintendent Carla Steinbach-Huther has oversight duties for MPS high schools and must bear responsibility for this dismal record, along with the principals whom she supervises.

 

High school principals Ray Aponte (South High School), Yusuf Abdullah (Henry High School), and Michael Favor (Southwest High Schools) should especially be taken to task for allowing many students (backed or encouraged by their parents) to opt out of the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA), the key state assessment emanating from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). 

 

Here are the student proficiency rates at MPS high schools for academic years 2014-2018:

 

Academic Proficiency Rates MPS High Schools for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, & 2018

 

                (Number of Students Assessed Given in Parentheses)

 

Edison High School         Principal >>>>>   Eryn Warne

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 21%         22%          27%       16%        17%

 

                                (130)      (134)      (144)     (156)      (186)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 33%         22%         25%        18%        20%

 

                                (132)      (179)      (159)     (187)      (201)

 

Science                   2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 12%         29%          17%        8%         12%

 

                                 (95)       (80)         (94)      (124)     (181)

 

Henry High School           Principal >>>>>   Yusuf Abdullah

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 46%         52%          59%       14%       -----

 

                                (214)      (181)         (17)        (7)       (-----)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 50%         33%         32%        31%        75%

 

                                (241)      (218)        (28)        (13)         (8)

 

Science                   2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 20%         31%          29%       29%        57%

 

                                (174)      (42)         (14)         (7)          (7)

 

North High School           Edison High School         Principal >>>>>   Shawn Harris-Berry

 

(North Academy of Arts and Science)

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 -----         16%          2%        -----          2%

 

                                (-----)    (57)         (38)      (-----)    (42)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 23%          9%           5%         11%         2%

 

                                (66)        (57)        (36)        (66)       (55)

 

Science                  2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 -----         10%          5%        -----         2%

 

                                (-----)    (57)         (38)          (-----)    (42)

 

Roosevelt High School                  Edison High School         Principal >>>>>   Michael Bradley

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 18%         14%         12%         8%         27%

 

                                (168)      (117)        (67)        (91)      (194)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 27%         21%         14%        14%        27%

 

                                (181)      (82)         (85)      (165)      (231)

 

Science                   2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                   8%          8%           11%       10%        18%

 

                                 (86)       (50)         (100)    (108)     (249)

 

South High School           Edison High School         Principal >>>>>   Ray Aponte

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                  20%        23%        -----         29%        34%

 

                                (143)      (48)       (-----)     (28)        (65)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                  45%        29%         14%        36%        18%

 

                                (252)      (73)          (86)        (47)      (132)

 

Science                   2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                  17%        35%        -----         28%         4%

 

                                 (88)       (17)       (-----)    (61)       (96)

 

 

Southwest High School                 Principal >>>>>   Michael Favor

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                  34%        47%        42%        -----        -----

 

                                (303)      (60)       (12)       (-----)   (-----)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                  64%        46%         65%        53%        65%

 

                                (386)      (134)        (60)        (58)      (141)

 

Science                   2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                  39%        47%        83%         58%        61%

 

                                (321)      (75)        (6)          (38)      (111)

 

Washburn High School                  Principal >>>>>   Emily Palmer

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 34%         44%        27%        42%         47%

 

                                (283)      (271)      (233)     (241)     (330)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 54%         50%        49%         62%        55%

 

                                (312)      (261)       (335)    (368)      (362)

 

Science                 2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 -----         50%          37%       28%        49%

 

                                (-----)    (228)        (188)    (275)     (357)

 

These rates of academic proficiency, for which Associate Superintendent Carla Steinbach and the site personnel for whom she is responsible are deeply culpable for the low rates of academic proficiency in the high schools of the Minneapolis Public Schools.  This is true, too, for associate superintendents Ron Wagner and Brian Zambreno, who supervise K-5 and K-8 elementary schools.  These failures are covered in other articles of this edition of Journal of the K-12 Revolution:  Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota, along with the particular culpability of three high school principals implicated in the opt-out phenomena pertinent to the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCAs).   

 

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