Insubstantial Credentials and Failed Performance of Laura Cavender, Another Likely Key Aide to Sub-Mediocre New Superintendent Lisa Sayles Adams
With
the ouster of Rochelle Cox and Aimee Fearing, the quality of advisers that will
remain on staff at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) under sub-mediocre new
superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams will be greatly diminished.
Three
cabinet members who are likely to remain as advisers to Sayles-Adams are
Shawn-Harris-Berry, Yusuf Abdullah, and Laura Cavender.
Cavender
will remain as an associate superintendent position.
Cavender moved to the Davis Center (MPS central offices, 1250 West Broadway) during the Graff administration (2016-2022) from a position as building principal of Bryn Mawr Elementary School. She has very humble academic credentials, as do almost all of those having responsibility for academics at the district: teachers, principals, Davis Center academic division staff, associate superintendents, and superintendent. And Cavender was a failure as principal at Bryn Mawr, as the academic proficiency rates of students indicate.
Peruse, then, Cavender’s insubstantial academic credentials (which feature no graduate degree in a key subject area field [i.e., mathematics, physics, history, government, economics, English literature]) and review the abysmal academic proficiency rates at Bryn Mawr Elementary School, including those recorded during the years of Abdullahs’s tenure as principal.
Laura Cavender (Associate Superintendent)
Academic Degree/Credential
M. A. Curriculum &
Instruction
(University of Nebraska/Lincoln)
B.A. or B.S., Education
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Licensures:
Pre-Kindergarten
District Superintendent
K-12 Principal
School
Data by Comparison to Districtwide Data
School District
Native
American 4% 5%
African
American 52% 35%
Asian
American 18% 5%
Hispanic
American 8% 14%
White
American 17%
41%
Receive
ELL Services 21%
17%
Free/Reduced
Lunch 76% 48%
Special
Education 20% 15%
Reading
2014 2015
2016 2017 2018 2019
2021 2022 2023
22%
27% 18% 22%
22% 16% 16%
17% 21%
(187) (196)
(186) (171) (163) (147)
(57) (149) (137)
Math
2014 2015
2016 2017 2018
2019 2021 2022
2023
35%
28% 33% 25%
20% 14% 22%
11% 17%
(50)
(63) (52) (60)
(56) (51) (16)
(145) (131)
Science
2014 2015
2016 2017 2018 2019
2021 2022 2023
20%
25% 25% 10%
20% 8% 19%
6% 10%
(567)
(532) (547) (510) (514) (492)
(172) (47) (41)
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