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Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA) Proficiency Uniformly Abominable Among All School Districts in the Metropolitan Area of Minneapolist/St. Paul

 

Recently there has been a notable shuffling of superintendents from one school district to the other within the Metropolitan Area of Minneapolis-St. Paul.  Corey McIntyre will move from the Osseo Pubic Schools to the Anoka-Hennepin Public Schools for the 2023-2024 academic year, replacing David Law, who is now the Minnetonka Public Schools superintendent;  Kim Hiel will move from the Fridley Public Schools to the Osseo Public Schools for the 2023-2024 academic year.  But inspection of the records left behind by these recent superintendent designates is uniformly abominable, not much better than the record that was established by Ed Graff during his tenure as superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools from the 2016-2017 academic year through 2021-2022, or by Joe Gothard, superintendent of the St. Paul Public Schools.

 

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Anoka-Hennepin Public Schools             

(David Law, Superintendent [through June 2022)

 

                           2018      2019     2020     2021     2022

                                                       (N/A)                           

 

Reading            65.4%   65.1%    -------    55.5%   54.9%

Mathematics   64.6%   63.5%    -------    48.8%   52.4%

Science             61.4%   60.0%     -------    47.1%   43.2%

 

 

Osseo Public Schools    

(Corey McIntyre, Superintendent)

 

                           2018      2019     2020     2021     2022

                                                       (N/A)                           

 

Reading            56.2%   55.0%    -------    50.7%   49.5%

Mathematics   52.6%   49.3%    -------    41.9%   41.7%

Science             43.4%   40.9%     -------    38.8%   34.5%

 

 

Fridley Public Schools   

(Kim Hiel, Superintendent)

 

                           2018      2019     2020     2021     2022

                                                       (N/A)                           

 

Reading            44.8%   44.3%    -------    34.6%   32.5%

Mathematics   41.8%   37.8%    -------    27.3%   21.5%

Science             30.4%   24.0%     -------    19.4%   17.1%

 

Minneapolis Public Schools       

(Ed Graff, Superintendent [July 2016-June 2022])

 

                           2018      2019     2020     2021     2022

                                                       (N/A)                           

 

Reading            45.1%   46.9%    -------    45.9%   34.8%

Mathematics   42.3%   32.0%    -------    35.5%   33.1%

Science             34.3%   36.6%     -------    36.5%   33.4%

 

St. Paul Public Schools  

(Joe Gothard, Superintendent)

 

                           2018      2019     2020     2021     2022

                                                       (N/A)                           

 

Reading            38.4%   39.5%    -------    33.3%   34.8%

Mathematics   32.8%   32.0%    -------    21.4%   25.2%

Science             29.8%   29.1%     -------    23.7%   25.1%