The following candidates are now on your ballot for mail-in and early voting for the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education 3 November election:
District 2
Sharon El-Amin
KerryJo Felder
District 4
Adrianna Cerrillo
Christa Mims
District 6
Ira Jourdain
At Large
Michael Dueñes
Kim Ellison
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Jourdain has no opposition, but for the open slots electing Sharon El-Amin for District 2, Adriana Cerrillo for District 4, and Michael Dueñes for an at-large seat is of great importance to the overhaul that must take place at the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Current District 2 Member Felder is an erratic presence on the Board, often making errors in citing statistics that she compiles but insufficiently understands; she is deeply indebted politically to the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party and has little understanding or inclination toward the overhaul needed in curriculum and teacher quality in the district. Current At-Large Member Ellison is also tied to the MFT/DFL cohort that always impedes reform efforts. Mercifully, District 4 Member Bob Walser opted not to run again, opening the way for Dueñes.
Sharon El-Amin has served as head of the North Polar (North High School) parent group and is a community activist who twice a month prepares 100 meals for those in need; for many years, El-Amin owned and ran the El-Amin Fish Shop on West Broadway Avenue.
Adriana Cerrillo is an activist who has made many appearances at the state capitol in St. Paul as an advocate for immigrants’ rights. She is guardian for her 11-year-old nephew, who attends Emerson Spanish Immersion Learning Center in the Loring Park neighborhood, where Cerrillo is on the site council and has agitated for improved quality.
Michael Dueñes is a former dean of liberal arts and global education at North Hennepin Community College. Since 2018 he has been self-employed as a policy analyst focused on education and racial disparities.
Electing Sharon El-Amin and Adriana Cerrillo will rid the MPS Board of Education of MFT/DFL sycophants KerryJo Felder and Kim Ellison; electing Dueñes will bring to the Board a member willing to question district approaches and policies that have produced such terrible academic results.
Other than ridding the nation of the menace that is Donald Trump and gaining politically progressive control of the Senate and retaining such in the House of Representatives, transforming K-12 education is the most important task for addressing the ills now besetting the United States of America. Electing school board members across the nation willing to challenge the political and ideological forces that impede the needed transformation is vital to the production of a more knowledgeable, fact-led citizenry.
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