Brenda Cassellius and Stephanie
Burrage are the typical education establishment figures who have climbed the
pay scale from teacher to administrator by seeking academically insubstantial
education degrees.
Burrage has no degree other than those obtained in wretched education programs.
Cassellius does have an undergraduate degree in psychology but otherwise all of her degrees are in education.
Neither possesses a degree at any level in the key subject areas of mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, history, government, economics, or literature.
Further, both of these candidates are linked to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), an intellectually corrupt institution whose slack oversight of World’s Best Workforce (WBWF), Achievement and Integration (A&I), American Indian Education (AIE) was detailed in a report issued by Minnesota Office of Legislative Auditor (OLA) in March 2022. And in my own 3 April 2022 opinion piece in the Star Tribune, “Report on Learning Gaps Requires Context,” I discussed the ineffectiveness of the Regional Centers of Excellence (RCE).
Brenda Cassellius was Minnesota Commissioner of Education from January 2011 to January 2019. In 2018 the staff under her direction established the North Star Accountability System to meet the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
These programs serve only to meet the legalistic requirements of ESSA and the state response to ESSA known as the North Star Accountability System. This program, like an MDE prototype, the Multiple Measurement Rating System (MMRS), shifted emphasis from objective assessments of student performance to identify struggling students and schools to an approach that merely included objective assessments--- along with graduation rates and annual progress toward goals--- to rate school performance and identify those schools to receive assistance in meeting academic targets.
And the main means of assisting struggling students and schools is via the Regional Centers of Excellence. The RCEs--- along with the WBWF, A&I, and AIE--- constitute an ineffective program designed merely to meet the legalistic requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which is itself a preposterous sham with no capacity to improve public education in the United States. MDE does little but receive reports from school districts and report in turn to the Legislature: No follow-up in terms of investigating program effectiveness ever occurs.
Brenda Cassellius was the MDE Commissioner of
Education who largely put this corrupt programmatic façade in place.
Stephanie Burrage now participates in this corrupt system as Minnesota Deputy Commissioner of Education.
Neither Cassellius nor Burrage have the academic heft to oversee the critical transformation of curriculum and teacher quality in the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) needed to provide students with an academically substantive education. Their connection to the MDE should rule them out either as interim or long-term superintendents. If a majority of members of the MPS Board or Education votes to hire one of these mediocrities as interim superintendent, activists should exert extreme pressure to assure that the search process results in the hiring of a superintendent who is able to comprehend the needed overhaul of teacher quality and curriculum, along with associated administrative changes, and to engage the talents of a university-based or independent scholar with a Ph.D. In a key academic area to oversee the overhaul of curriculum and teacher quality for the provision of academically substantive education at the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Note the weak academic training revealed in the credentials of Brenda Cassellius and Stephanie Burrage >>>>>
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Brenda
Cassellius
Education
The University of Memphis
Doctor of Education – EdD
Organizational Leadership
2004- 2007
University of St. Thomas
Specialist
Educational Leadership and
Administration, General
1993 – 1995
University of St. Thomas
Master's degree
Secondary Education and
Teaching
1990- 1991
University of
Minnesota-Twin Cities
Bachelor's degree
Psychology
1985 - 1989
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Stephanie Burrage ($76.66/ hour; estimated $152,720/year)
Minnesota Deputy Commissioner of Education
Ed.D. (Educational Policy and Administration)
University of Minnesota/Twin Cities
M.Ed. (Elementary Education)
University of Wisconsin/Madison
M.Ed.
St. Mary’s University
B.A. (Secondary Education)
Western Michigan University
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