[Speed Gibson,
Wednesday December 12, 2007 at 5:28am]
Minneapolis Schools Vote for Change
I'm not all that familiar with the details, but the Minneapolis School Board unanimously adopted the entire package of strategic reforms aimed at raising test scores and closing achievement gaps. It even speaks of rewarding success and removing poor performers, including teachers, who protested outside.
It appears to be one of the boldest moves to date by any public school system, wandering dangerously close to concepts of accountability. I can't say as I understand how abandoning the North side is strategic, even if the majority of North side parents are abandoning them. I'm curious to see how they'll get the unions to accept what's required to make it work.
But I give them high marks for realizing that anything less won't work.
It appears to be one of the boldest moves to date by any public school system, wandering dangerously close to concepts of accountability. I can't say as I understand how abandoning the North side is strategic, even if the majority of North side parents are abandoning them. I'm curious to see how they'll get the unions to accept what's required to make it work.
But I give them high marks for realizing that anything less won't work.