With Entry of Chapter Number Forty-Five of Part One, Facts, >Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools: Current Condition, Future Prospect<, Entry of Chapters for Part Two, Analysis, Begins >>>>> Assessment of Culpability Will Fall Hardest on Ed Graff, Cecilia Saddler, Shawn Harris-Berry, LaShawn Ray, Carla Steinbach-Huther, Ron Wagner, Brian Zambreno, Aimee Fearing and the Department of Teaching and Learning Staff Members, Michael Walker and Office of Black Male Achievement Staff Members, Anna Ross & Jennifer Simon and Department of Indian Education Staff Members; and Michelle Wiese and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers

With the entry of Chapter Forty-Five of Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect, I will now be entering the chapters for Part Two, Analysis.

Discerning readers already realize that my investigation presents an account of stark incompetence and persistent neglect of students at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS).  The facts convey that account as strictly objective truth.

Now my analysis begins, in which I relate to my readers matters that only I am in a position to know. 

Those who work at the Minneapolis Public Schools do so in a context of corruption and culpability on the part of a bevy of external actors, including education professors who train teachers in department, colleges, and schools of education;  college and university officials who allow intellectually corrupt teacher programs to continue as cash cows for their coffers; Minnesota Department of Education commissioners such as Brenda Cassellius and Mary Catherine Richter who do the bidding of Education Minnesota and the Democrat-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party legislators whom the union assists mightily during elections; DFL governors such as Mark Dayton and Tim Walz;  Party Star Tribune staffers such as Scott Gillespie, Doug Tice, other editors and beat writers for their abominable coverage of K-12 education;  and the general public for abiding disinterest and ignorance pertinent to public education.      

But in a nation that has a mania for local control, key responsibility falls to those who work for locally centralized school districts.  Accordingly, my analysis will find those who bear responsibility for the academic program of the Minneapolis Public Schools to be morally culpable for the wretched quality of education imparted to MPS students.

This means that judgment will be rendered most heavily in the cases of the following:

Superintendent Ed Graff

Deputy Chief of Academic, Leadership, and Learning Cecilia Saddler

Associate Superintendent Shawn Harris-Berry,

Associate Superintendent LaShawn Ray

Associate Superintendent Carla Steinbach-Huther

Associate Superintendent Ron Wagner

Associate Superintendent Brian Zambreno,

Department of Teaching and Learning Executive Director Aimee Fearing and her staff

Director of the Office of Black Male Achievement Michael Walker

Recently Resigned Director Anna Ross and Current Director Jennifer Simon at the Department of Indian Education---  and the staff of that department

Michelle Wiese and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers