Steve Belton is a blowhard who has done
nothing to address the most vexing dilemma of the North Minneapolis African
American Community in which he is embedded and earns a six-figure salary:
The Minneapolis Urban League has disbanded
its failed schools and is never a presence at meetings of the Minneapolis Public
Schools. One of the organization’s chief
foci should be K-12 education, but under the particularly bellicose but
incompetent Belton the league remains silent.
Nekima Levy-Armstrong (formerly
Levy-Pounds) is an erratic putative activist that puts in short stints at professional
posts and organizations, her only consistent traits being those indicating
propensities to proclaim loudly and accomplish little. Levy-Armstrong is largely responsible for the
academically lightweight Ed Graff becoming superintendent of the Minneapolis
Public Schools. She led a group
protesting the likely dubbing of Michael Goar to be superintendent, inducing
the second-round of a lamentable two-phase process that led to a 6-3 vote for
Graff. After that dubious
accomplishment, Levy-Armstrong has been absent from most meetings of the MPS Board
of Education and other district congregations.
And even if she had showed anything but her typical erratic
inconsistency, she has given little evidence of comprehending the nature of
excellent education so vital to young people living at the urban core.
Thus, as you review the sixth article
in this series, note the addition of Belton and Levy-Armstrong to the list of culpable
parties sustaining the abysmal level of education at the Minneapolis Public
Schools--- and carefully consider again
the failure of everyone on the list.
They, far more than John Calhoun or Stonewall Jackson, are the culprits
relegating those African Americans and others living in our central cities to
second-class citizenship status.
Perpend >>>>>
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Article #6 in a Series >>>>> However Bad You May Think Things Are at the
Minneapolis Public Schools, They Are Much Worse--- And Thus I Am in the Process of Taking the
Offending Systems and Staff Apart Piece by Piece
We Must Be Clear
in Calling Out Those Responsible for the Abysmal Education at the Minneapolis Public
Schools as We Examine
the Corrupt
Context in Which the Superintendent Ed Graff;
Interim Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Senior Academic Officer Aimee
Fearing; Associate Superintendents Shawn Harris-Berry, LaShawn Ray, Ron Wagner,
Brian Zambreno; the 22 Staff Members of
the Department of Teaching and Learning; Michael Walker and the Office of Black
Student Achievement, and Jennifer Simon and the Department of Academically
Abuse MPS Students
As readers scroll on down to the
previous articles in this series, you should be clear as to the culprits in
sustaining the lamentable state of public education at the Minneapolis Public
Schools (MPS).
As a leftist revolutionary, I have
almost as disregard for hypocritical hippy-dippy liberals as I do
intellectually bankrupt conservatives and reactionaries. Rather than focusing on ripping down statues,
trashing community businesses, and cowardly casting aspersions at those who
lived two centuries ago, those thimbleful who are sincerely interested in the
overhaul of K-12 education would do well to face off with this motley crew:
In the MPS central offices at the Davis Center
(1250 West Broadway), the culprits are
Superintendent Ed Graff
Interim Senior Academic Officer Aimee
Fearing
Associate Superintnedent Shawn
Harris-Berry
Associate Superintendent LaShawn Ray
Associate Superintendent Ron Wagner
Associate Superintendent Brian
Zambreno
The 22 staff members of the Department
of Teaching and Learning
Office of Black Male Student Director
Michael Walker and his staff members
Department of Indian Education
Director Jennifer Simon and her staff members
On the MPS Board of Education, in
order of offensiveness there are
District 4 Member Bob Walser
District 5 Member Nelson Inz
District 2 Member KerryJo Felder
At-Large Member Kim Ellison
District 1 Member Jenny Arneson
At-Large Member Kim Caprini
District 4 Member ira Jourdain
District 3 Member Siad Ali
At-Large Member Josh Pauly
At the Minnesota Department of
Education there have been and are those responsible for such corrupt
pretensions as the North Star Accountability System and World’s Best Workforce,
including
Former Commissioner Brenda Cassellius
Current Commissioner Mary Cathryn
Richter
All MDE staff members who have
colluded with these intellectually corrupt officials, including prominently
Michael Dietrich
Decision makers and implementers dwell
at institutions such as the University of Minnesota (UM), Hamline, Augsburg,
St. Thomas, and UM Mankato, including
University of Minnesota President Joan
Gabel
The presidents and administrative
decision-makers the other given institutions
Staff Members and Education professors
in the UM College of Education and Human Development
(CEHD)
Key Members of the Private and Public
Sectors in Minneapolis, including
Sandy Vargas, erstwhile head of the
Minneapolis Foundation, she who was going to RESET education
R. T. Rybak, who was going to atone
for 12 yers of neglect of public education as mayor by leading Generation Next
toward solutions for the public education quandary but departed for a better
paying job at the Minneapolis Foundation.
Former members of the MPS Board of
Education, who showed great promise in driving to the core of the vexations at
the Minneapolis Public Schools--- but
are now nowhere to be seen
Carla Bates
Josh Reimnitz
Tracine Asberry
Former members of the MPS Board of
Education who issues bombastic proclamations but has no program and no
sustained commitment in any positon he assumes:
Don Samuels
Members of the Public and Press Who
Neglect the Responsibilities of Citizenship or give Evidence of Intellectual
and Moral Corruption, including
Star
Tribune Editorial
Board Scott Gillespie
Star
Tribune Commentary
Pages Editor Doug Tice
That Segment of the General Public
That got all worked up about the Comp[rensive District Design (CDD) but has n
ow disappeared into the woodwork
Ineffective Putative Activists and
Incompetent Heads of Key Organizations
Minneapolis Urban League President/CEO
Steve Belton
Erstwhile law professor and NAACP
President; and current ineffective gadfly Nekima Levy-Armstrong
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Be clear.
Do your homework.
Stop with the bromides and mass
ignorance.
Identify the true culprits and root
them out.
Or go find you own place in the
woodwork.
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