Mar 12, 2020

Chapter Seven >>>>> World's Best Workforce Programs


A fuller presentation of World’s Best Workforce (WBWF) programs is given below


 

Advancement Via Individual Determination  (AVID)

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #1

 

AVID                                     

(Advancement Via

Individual Determination)

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Racial and Economic Gaps Closed

Ready for Career and College

Graduation from High School

 

Budgetary Allocation, Academic Years

Ending in 2017, 2018, and 2019 

 

    2017                     2018                    2019

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

$163,000             $3,042,040        $2,942,000

 

Students Served (Grades 4-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-5 & K-8          Middle        High

(Elementary     School        School        

AVID)                 (PREP

                        & Elective)

 

981                         2,654          1,302

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-8          Middle     High        

                  School     School             

 

694            1,414       1,734

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year Ending in 2018)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

1,025

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

     86

 

Asian >>>>>

 

  136

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

  426

 

White  >>>>>

 

  248

 

Total  >>>>>

 

1,921

Check and Connect

           

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #2

 

Check & Connect

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Graduation from High School

 

2016                       2017                       2018

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

 $700,000             $350,000             $350,000

 

Students Served (Grades 4-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-8          Middle                       High         Academic Year

                  School        School     Q1 2016-2017

                           

306             370            1,302

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-8          Middle       High        Academic Year

                  School        School       2017-2018                          

 

                      89               527

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

1,098

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

  240

 

Asian >>>>>

 

    62

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

 450

 

White  >>>>>

 

 128

 

Total  >>>>>

 

1,978

 

Ethnic Studies and Social Justice Fellows

                                                                              

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #3

 

Ethnic Studies and Social Justice Fellows

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Graduation from High School

 

2016                       2017                       2018

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

 $345,929             $236,903             $150,000            

 

Students Served (Grades 4-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-8          Middle        High         Academic Year

                  School        School     T1 2016-2017

                           

-----            -----            430       

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-8          Middle       High        Academic Year

                  School        School     T12017-2018                        

 

                                        544

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2017)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

378

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

    6

 

Asian >>>>>

 

  19

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

  50

 

White  >>>>>

 

  21

 

Total  >>>>>

 

474

 

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

African American    >>>>>

 

358

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

  23

 

Asian >>>>>

 

  25

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

  76

 

White  >>>>>

 

  62

 

Total  >>>>>

 

544

 

Fast Track Scholars

 

>>>>>   

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #4

 

Fast Track Scholars

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Graduation from High School

 

    2016                       2017                      2018

Budgetary           Budgetary           Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

 $50,000                $13,000                $13,000               

 

Students Served (Rising 9th)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-8          Middle        High         Academic Year

                  School        School        2016-2017

                           

-----            -----            269       

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-8          Middle       High        Academic Year

                  School        School     2017-2018            

 

-----            -----            189

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2017)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

108

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

  6

 

Asian >>>>>

 

  20

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

  71

 

White  >>>>>

 

  42

 

Total  >>>>>

 

269

 

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

African American    >>>>>

 

109

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

     7

 

Asian >>>>>

 

    7

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

  47

 

White  >>>>>

 

  19

 

Total  >>>>>

 

189

 

Fast Track Scholars is a summer program for 8th graders invited to Summer Session and all 8th grade AVID students.       

GEMs & GISE 

Most of these programs have been in place for many years, with meager results.  

 

Other than these programs, the Superintendent Ed Graff administration is placing its hopes on the training of staff and students in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), the use of Culturally Relevant Materials (CRM) and the implementation of a new reading curriculum for grades PK-5.

 

For reasons that I have detailed in past articles posted on this blog, none of the programs articulated by the Graff administration and approved by the MPS Board of Education is adequate to the task of raising student achievement levels or imparting a knowledge-intensive, skill-replete education. 

 

That will only come with complete curricular overhaul, comprehensive teacher retraining, highly intentional tutoring, resource provision and referral for struggling families, and bureaucratic trimming so as to direct resources to the students themselves.

 

These observations will be discussed at length in my substantially complete book, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect, for which I will continue to post snippets in the run-up to publication this coming May 2018.

 

The program under review here is GEMS & GISE.  As to World’s Best Workforce regulations established by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) this program is intended to address two:  (among the six possible items for WBWF alignment):  Closing Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps;  and Ready for Career and College.  Via this program, actually two closely related programs, decision-makers at the Minneapolis Public Schools aim to attract more female students to the fields of engineering, math, science, and technology.

 

Thus, this is an admirable aim, but in a school district of approximately 20,000 students of color, any notion that a program covering no K-5 students and fewer than 500 high school students---  and no K-5 or grades 6-8 students---   is going to contribute anything of significance to raising achievement levels is fanciful.

                                                                                               

The impression builds with the review of each program purported to raise overall achievement levels that that decision-makers at the Minneapolis Public Schools dwell in a fantasy world, are cynical in advancing programs that they no cannot work, or are joltingly incompetent.

 

Consider now the data pertinent to Fast Track Scholars:              

 

>>>>>   

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #4

 

Fast Track Scholars

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Graduation from High School

 

2016                       2017                       2018

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

 $900,000             $213,000             $213,000            

 

Students Served (Grades K-8)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-5          K-8                Middle        High         Academic Year

                                      School         School      2015-2016

                           

1,646       676               257 -----      

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-5          K-8                Middle        High         Academic Year

                                      School         School      2017-2018

                           

2,629       751                736                -----      

                                  

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2017)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

951

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

   84

 

Asian >>>>>

 

194

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

 513

 

White  >>>>>

 

839

 

Total  >>>>>

 

2,581

 

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

African American    >>>>>

 

1,725

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

    134

 

Asian >>>>>

 

    229

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

    758

 

White  >>>>>

 

 1,375

 

Total  >>>>>

 

4,221

 

Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG)

 

>>>>>   

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #3

 

Jobs For America’s Graduates

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Ready for Career and College

 

Graduation from High School

 

2017                            2018                      2019

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

 $898,740             $200,000                  $0     

 

Students Served (Grades 4-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-8          Middle        High         Academic Year

                  School        School     Q1 2016-2017

                           

-----            -----            497       

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-8          Middle       High        Academic Year

                  School        School      2017-2018                           

 

                                        167

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2017)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

148

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

    35

 

Asian >>>>>

 

      9

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

  43

 

White  >>>>>

 

  13

 

Total  >>>>>

 

476

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

African American    >>>>>

 

107

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

   0

 

Asian >>>>>

 

   3

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

  57

 

White  >>>>>

 

    0

 

Total  >>>>>

 

167

 

Grow Your Own Teacher Residency

 

>>>>>   

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #3

 

Grow Your Own Teacher Residency

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Budgetary Allocation for Academic Years

Ending in 2017, 2018, and 2019:

 

2017                            2018                      2019

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

 $600,000             $875,000             $100,000            

 

Students Served (Grades 4-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-5          K-8         Middle        High         Academic Year

                                School        School        2015-2016

                           

450            75         -----               -----

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-5              K-8        Middle        High         Academic Year

                                   School        School        2017-2018

                           

1,174        2,520      -----             ----- 

                           

 

                                        167

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2017)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

248

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

    8

 

Asian >>>>>

 

  16

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

111

 

White  >>>>>

 

142

 

Total  >>>>>

 

525

 

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

African American    >>>>>

 

1,847

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

  148

 

Asian >>>>>

 

    63

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

1,367

 

White  >>>>>

 

  269

 

Total  >>>>>

 

3,694

 

Learning Works

 

>>>>>   

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #8

 

LearningWorks at Blake

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Ready for Career and College

 

Graduation from High School

 

Budgetary Allocation for Academic Years

Ending in 2017, 2018, and 2019:

 

2017                            2018                      2019

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

 $50,000                  $25,000               $25,000               

 

Students Served (Grades 6-12)

 

Data are not kept for specific grade level

breakdown, thus yielding the following presentation:

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-5          K-8         Middle        High         Academic Year

                                School        School        2015-2016

                           

Data not broken down by school

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-5              K-8        Middle        High         Academic Year

                                   School        School        2017-2018

                           

                Data not broken down by school

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2017)

 

African American    >>>>>

 

41

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

   2

 

Asian >>>>>

 

   9

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

 19

 

White  >>>>>

 

 34

 

Total  >>>>>

 

107

 

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

African American    >>>>>

 

32

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

   9 (or fewer---  data inexact)

 

Asian >>>>>

 

    9 (or fewer---  data inexact)

 

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

  22

 

White  >>>>>

 

  28

 

Total  >>>>>

 

  91

 

Multi-Tiered System of Support

 

>>>>>   

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #9

 

MTSS/ Culturally Relevant Materials

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Third Graders Reading at Grade Level

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Graduation from High School

 

    2016                       2017                      2018

Budgetary           Budgetary           Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

      $0                   $1,520,000        $1,576,903              

 

Students Served (K-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-5          Middle       High        Academic Year

                  School        School     2017-2018            

 

5,072          971             991

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

 

 (Academic Year               Ending in 2018)

 

African American    >>>>>

 

3,068

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

   209

 

Asian >>>>>

 

    350

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

  1,406

 

White  >>>>>

 

  2,001

 

Total  >>>>>

 

6,984

 

Office of Black Male Achievement

 

>>>>>   

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #10

 

Office of Black Male Achievement

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Ready for Career and College

 

Graduation from High School

 

2017                            2018                      2019

 

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

 $310,000             $320,000             $320,000            

 

Students Served (Grades K-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-5          K-8         Middle        High         Academic Year

                                School        School     Q1 2016-2017

                           

(Starts     16            71                120                

Q2)           

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-5          K-8         Middle        High         Academic Year

                                School        School     Q1 2016-2018

           

 62            25           94                167

 

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

This program by definition is exclusively for African American males:

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2017)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

207

 

Total  >>>>>

 

207

 

(Academic Year Ending in 2018

 

African American    >>>>>

 

348

 

Total  >>>>>

 

348

 

Project SUCCESS

 

 

>>>>>   

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #11

 

Project Success

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Ready for Career and College

 

Graduation from High School

 

2017                            2018                      2019

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

 $275,000             $110,000             $110,000            

 

Students Served (Grades 6-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

  K-8       Middle        High         Academic Year

                  School        School       2016-2017

                           

 625          3,354           8,703

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-8         Middle        High         Academic Year

                  School        School       2017-2018

                           

1,448       3,413          10,362

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

This program by definition is exclusively for African American males:

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2017)

 

African American    >>>>>

 

4,832

 

American Indian/

Native American

                                   

445

 

Asian

 

933

 

Hispanic

 

2,179

 

White

 

3,743

 

Total  >>>>>

 

12,142

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

African American    >>>>>

 

6,439

 

American Indian/

Native American

                                   

618

 

Asian

 

992

 

Hispanic

 

3,054

 

White

 

4,120

 

Total  >>>>>

 

15,223

 

Racially identifiable Schools (RIS) Direct Support

 

>>>>>   

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #12

 

Racially Identifiable Schools (RIS)

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Ready for School

 

Third Graders Reading at Grade Level

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Ready for Career and College

 

Graduation from High School

 

2017                            2018                      2019

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

   $0                       $1,800,000           $2,000,000         

 

Students Served (Grades 4-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-5             K-8             Middle        High           Academic Year

                    School       School           School        2016-2017

                           

4,115       3,681               928              1,774

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

5,786

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

   463

 

Asian >>>>>

 

1,043

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

 2,465

 

White  >>>>>

 

   766

 

Total  >>>>>

 

10,537

 

Spring and Winter Break Academy

 

>>>>>   

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #13

 

Spring and Winter Break Academy

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Third Graders Reading at Grade Level

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Graduation from High School

 

2017                            2018                      2019

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

$1,199,783              $60,000              $10,000               

 

Students Served (Grades 4-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-5             K-8             Middle        High           Academic Year

                    School       School           School        2016-2017

 

Data not broken down by school.

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-5             K-8             Middle        High           Academic Year

                    School       School           School        2016-2017

                           

Data not broken down by school.

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

1,266

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

   139

 

Asian >>>>>

 

   236

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

   848

 

White  >>>>>

 

   332

 

Total  >>>>>

 

2,715

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

  1,536

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

   105

 

Asian >>>>>

 

   201

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

1,056

 

White  >>>>>

 

   33  

 

Urban Debate League

 

>>>>>   

 

Major (WBWF) Academic Program #14

 

Urban Debate League

 

Program for                                       

World’s Best Work Force (WBWF)

Alignment, 2017-2018

 

Projected WBWF Goals Addressed  >>>>>

 

Third Graders Reading at Grade Level

 

Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Closed

 

Graduation from High School

 

2017                            2018                      2019

Budgetary           Budgetary          Budgetary

Allocation           Allocation          Allocation          

 

$300,783                 $119,000           $119,000             

 

Students Served (Grades 6-12)

 

Academic Year Ending in 2017                  

 

K-8             Middle        High           Academic Year

School       School         School              2015-2016

 

200                106               116

 

Academic Year Ending in 2018                  

 

K-8             Middle        High           Academic Year

School       School         School              2017-2018

                           

101               138                105        

 

Students Served by Race                                                             

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2017)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

 115

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

     7

 

Asian >>>>>

 

   21

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

   54

 

White  >>>>>

 

   227

 

Total  >>>>>

 

  424

 

(Academic Year                Ending in 2018)

 

 

African American    >>>>>

 

 138

 

American Indian     >>>>>

(Native American)

 

     4

 

Asian >>>>>

 

   29

 

Hispanic >>>>>

 

   45

 

White  >>>>>

 

   177

 

Total  >>>>>

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