In seeking a new superintendent, the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education must go outside the ill-trained education establishment saliently represented by Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) Commissioner of Education Heather Mueller, Deputy Commissioner of Education Stephanie Burrage, and Program Manager Teresa M. Taylor.
The abysmal state of public education in the United States generally, in the state of Minnesota, and in the Minneapolis Public Schools is traceable to the terrible training that prospective teachers and administrators receive under education professors in departments, schools, and colleges of education.
Administrator and teacher training proceeds mostly in the absence of any subject area specificity, so that very few central office administrators, building principals, or teachers have much knowledge in the key subject areas of mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, history, government, economics, geography, or English or world literature. Departments, schools, and colleges of education are degree mills and cash cows for colleges and universities that bestow graduate degrees that allow teachers to move up the step and lane system of increased remuneration while getting very slight subject area training.
Those wishing to move into administration typically seek graduate degrees in educational administration that provide some instruction applicable to managing large organizations but offer no subject area education.
Those in roles of leadership at the Minnesota
Department of Education or positions as locally centralized school district superintendents
are not scholarly academicians.
Examine the training of Principal State Program Manager Terresa M. Taylor, Deputy Commissioner of Education Stephanie Burrage, and Commissioner of Education Heather Mueller to understand the vacuity of their academic training. Note that Mueller is curiously not the highest paid member of the Minnesota Department of Education, only third, behind Taylor and Burrage.
Teresa M. Taylor ($89.30/ hour; estimated $178,600/year)
Principal State Program Manager
Ed.D. (Educational Leadership)
Bethel University (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Masters of Education (M.Ed.)
St. Thomas University (St. Paul Minnesota)
B.S. (Business Administration)
Metropolitan State University
Stephanie Burrage ($76.66/ hour; estimated $152,720/year)
Deputy Commissioner of Education
Ed.D. (Educational Policy and Administration)
University of Minnesota/Twin Cities
M.Ed.
St. Mary’s University
M.Ed. (Elementary Education)
University of Wisconsin/Madison
B.A. (Secondary Education)
Western Michigan University
Heather Mueller
(Minnesota Commissioner of Education)
Ed. D. (Doctor of Education)
St. Mary’s University of Minnesota
M. Ed. (Educational Leadership with Emphasis on Organizational
Analysis and Change)
Minnesota State University,
Mankato
Specialist
Degree
Minnesota State University,
Mankato
Educational Leadership and Administration, General
B. Ed. (Social Studies)
Minnesota State University,
Mankato
Associate Arts
Degree
Arizona Western College
General Studies
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Jefferson Global Studies & Humanities School BM (PK-8)
Jefferson
Global Studies & Humanities School BM (PK-8)
1200 West
26th Street 55405
668-2720;
Fax
668-2730
7:30 a.m.
– 2:00 p.m.
Holly
Kleppe, P
Sara
Naegeli, AP
Cindy Hauser, Secretary
School District
Native American 4% 5%
African American 46% 36%
Asian American 3% 5%
Hispanic American 37% 14%
White American 10% 41%
English 43% 17%
Language
Learner
Free/ 81%
48%
Reduced Price
Lunch
Special 14%
15%
Education
Jefferson Community
Reading
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021
18% 15% 17% 16% 19% 21% 17%
(364) (363) (385) (362) (343) (294) (113)
Math
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021
17% 17% 16% 14% 13% 13% 4%
(380) (363) (385) (362) (343) (294) (113)
Science
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021
11% 10% 12% 11% 11% 11% 0%
(114) (129) (121) (112) (105) (93) (111)
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Sheridan Dual Language Elementary (PK-5)
Sheridan
Dual Language Elementary (PK-5) CV
1201
University Avenue NE 55413
668-1130;
Fax
668-1140
7:30 a.m.
– 2:00 p.m.
Yajaira
Guzman Carrero, P
Amy
Kennedy, AP
Patricia Gonzalez, Secretary
School District
Native American 1% 5%
African American 13% 36%
Asian American 1% 5%
Hispanic American 65% 14%
White American 19% 41%
English 52% 17%
Language
Learner
Free/ 51%
48%
Reduced Price
Lunch
Special 9%
15%
Education
Sheridan
Reading
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021
17% 18% 19% 16% 22% 26% 12%
(190) (191) (207) (185) (164) (90) (69)
Math
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021
31% 35% 24% 21% 23% 14% 11%
(191) (195) (209) (179) (186) (85) (54)
Science
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021
4% 19% 16% 13% 7% 21% 0%
(46) (48) (64) (48) (75) (33)
(19)
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