[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Minneapolis Schools Vote for Change

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Minneapolis Schools Vote for Change
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1197440797.shtml


   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.