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Public Instruction Report Cards

Public Instruction Report Cards

  There is a noticeable difference in the Report Card Overall Score. Hudson School District          83.9 Somerset School District        73.6   District Report Card Summary From:  https://apps2.dpi.wi.gov/reportcards/home                                     HUDSON                                 SOMERSET 2018-2019                   83.9                                         73.6 2107-2018                   82.2                                         78.4 2016-2017                   78.5                                         80.6 2015-2016                   79.5                                         71.5 2014-2015                               no available data 2013-2014                   76.5                                         70.1 2012-2013                   75.3                                         70.3 It is fair to conclude that Hudson is trending up and Somerset is trending down. Economically Disadvantaged # of Students Math/English                                     HUDSON (+/- 1)                                  SOMERSET  2018-2019                 …

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Violating Petitioners Rights

Violating Petitioners Rights

‘Petitioners whose property detachment requests have been denied have a right to appeal under the provisions of section 117.12(4) Wisconsin statutes’.

Legislative Audit, April 2018

Legislative Audit, April 2018

We reached out to the Legislative Auditor about the Minnesota Department of Education conduct centering around what information they were providing. We also questioned whether the legislature was getting accurate information from MDE.   Mr. F..….. The Office of the Legislative Auditor received the complaint you submitted to our office on April 8, 2019, regarding early childhood education and the achievement gap. Your e-mail to us questioned, among other things, whether the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is withholding information…

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Kindergarten Readiness, A Cover Up?

Kindergarten Readiness, A Cover Up?

  Kindergarten Readiness is the foundation on which the rest of a child’s education is built. Other problems may exist in the school system, but they are difficult to identify until kindergarten readiness has been fixed. That lead to a search for kindergarten readiness statics for the state. I searched the state website and was directed to a page that explained: • ‘Currently, the state of Minnesota does not have an estimate of the proportion of students entering kindergarten who…

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Universal Pre-Kindergarten

Universal Pre-Kindergarten

Pre-Kindergarten Four-year-old children would attend half-day classes during the school year, at the cost of about $7,500 per child. Currently in Minnesota, it is defined as ‘voluntary pre-kindergarten’ as only 4,000 positions are funded by the state government. However, Gov Walz has stated that Pre-Kindergarten provides the ‘biggest bang for our buck,’ and it will be the cornerstone of his next budget. What does this mean for families that are in Pre-Kindergarten? Families that rely on daycare are still responsible…

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Closing Observations

Closing Observations

Closing observations: The failures in education have been reported for some time and have been blamed on schools and teachers. Not all the kids show up ready for school. The worst districts seem to be located in the inter-city. There are maps of economic disparity, used by the banking industry to identify neighborhoods that they must attempt to serve to fulfill an obligation under the Community Reinvestment Act. Overlaying those maps with results from school districts in the state will…

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Achievement Gap Solutions?

Achievement Gap Solutions?

Poverty is the cause of the Achievement Gap (AG), and it will cost the taxpayer. The highest cost is to do nothing. Children show up for kindergarten that needs additional services, such as learning English or without executive function (causing behavior problems). “85 percent of all juveniles who come into contact with the juvenile court system are functionally illiterate. So are 60 percent of all prison inmates.” Ruben Rosario There are many benefits to Solving Minnesota’s Achievement Gap; this quote…

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Analysis of Gov. Dayton’s Fact Sheet 2016 Budget

Analysis of Gov. Dayton’s Fact Sheet 2016 Budget

FACT SHEET | Investing in Early Learning 2016 Budget for a Better Minnesota To help understand the flaws in this document the reader should understand when children learn. Child Development, Timeline: • Eighty percent of brain development happens by 3. • At sixteen months, a difference in vocabulary can be seen between children of low, modest, and high-income children. • By age two, scientists can predict 3rd-grade reading scores. • Chronic stress impedes development; poverty is the primary driver of…

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