Importance of Ten-Article Series Analyzing the Ignorance, Corruption, and State of Denial that Abides on the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education

My five-year investigation of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) yields the following most fundamental observation:

 

While the Financial Division and the Information Technology Department are especially effective facets of MPS and other nonacademic departments and divisions of MPS are good to excellent, every component and every key human actor in the academic division operates with ineluctable incompetence. 

 

These offenders include the following:

 

>>>>>    Superintendent Ed Graff  

>>>>>    Department of Teaching and Learning, now led by Aimee Fearing

>>>>>    Associate Superintendents, now comprised of Shawn Harris-Berry, LaShawn Ray, Ron Wagner, and Brian Zambreno

>>>>>    Office of Black Male Achievement led by Michael Walker

>>>>>    Department of Indian Education led by Jennifer Rose Simon

>>>>>    Most building principals

>>>>>    Most classroom teachers, protected by the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers led by Michelle Wiese

>>>>>    MPS Board of Education that now includes District #1 Member Jenny Arneson, District #2 Member KerryJo Felder, District #3 Member Siad Ali, District #4 Member Bob Walser, District #5 Member Nelson Inz, District #6 Member Ira Jourdain, and At-Large members Kim Caprini, Kim Ellison Josh Pauly, and Student Representative Janaan Ahmed  

 

When one considers the breadth and depth of incompetence represented in the above listing of ineffective positions and individuals, one comes to understand the predicament of this school district in delivering a knowledge-intensive, skill-replete education to the students of the Minneapolis Public Schools.  Understand this observation clearly

>>>>>    Not a single person---  not one, got it?---  nary a person, comprendes tu?---  connected in any way to academic decision-making at the Minneapolis Public Schools knows what she or he is doing.

 

Just in case this is not clear, let me repeat this most fundamental of all observations regarding my five-year study of the Minneapolis Public Schools       >>>>>

 

>>>>>     Not a single person connected in any way to academic decision-making at the Minneapolis Public Schools knows what she or he is doing.

 

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The above salient observation applies abundantly to the members of the MPS Board of Education.

 

In the ten-article series following immediately as you scroll on down this blog, you will read details that follow from the following key denotations  >>>>>           

 

>>>>>    Bob Walser is the worst member of a school board whom I have ever witnessed

>>>>>    Nelson Inz is an especially corrupt political hack

>>>>>    jenny Arneson, Kim Ellison, KerryJo Felder, and Kim Caprini are disasters

>>>>>    Minimal hope resides in Siad Ali, Ira Jourdain, and Josh Pauly

>>>>>    Student representatives Noah Branch, Shaadia Munye, Gabe Spinks, Ben Jaeger, and current student representative Janaan Ahmed have been woefully ineffective

 

Locus of ultimate decision-making at any locally centralized school district resides in a murky zone in which the superintendent and school board drift in and out.

 

Neither MPS Superintendent Ed Graff nor the members of the MPS Board of Education are capable of making necessary decisions for the impartation of a knowledge-intensive, skill-replete education to the long-waiting students of the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Details on MPS Board of Education incompetence are found abundantly in the immediately succeeding articles as you scroll on down this blog     >>>>>