An excellent piece about a terrible budget process & product, that will disproportionately impact the districts’ most marginalized. The educational debt owed to Black kids, English learners & those w/disabilities can’t be overstated. All signs point to BOE approving it tonight.

Educators of color are tired. The invisible tax is real.

Henry High School has the highest number of teachers of color in the district hovering around 30%. Since August, six BIPOC have left & the trend will continue. This datapoint should not be lost on us. White MPS educators, how have you contributed to this systematic shift?

There is a false equivalency when we use the term "teacher shortage" in MPS. The inequities are clear between north & south schools in MPS who have to close classes or classrooms where there is a different sub each day. The learning suffers. Our black & brown students know this.

Again our most marginalized black and brown special education students are not getting the supports they need to thrive. To what extent is MPS and the union working in collaboration to create innovative long term sustainable solutions?

Comes now this oddly-headlined bomblet in the Minneapolis School Board election: DFL/MFT-endorsed candidate who has avoided public forums acknowledges "valid concerns" about her behavior, substance abuse. 1/ southwestvoices.news/posts/school-b…

MPS white female teachers: When will you vote divisive leadership out? This is your leadership.

Scoop? 🍨 I obtained internal MPS documents & information about the plan to spend $30M on 400+ new interventionist positions in the district next year to address “unfinished learning” from the pandemic. 1/ mplsschoolsvoices.news/posts/mps-plan…

Director Jourdain just said something along the lines of "we know the best teachers in MPS aren't on the northside" & I want to say this is 100% false - the district's absolute best & most committed educators are on the northside.

The level of fuckery on this language and implementation is really something. The silence of some stakeholders is deafening. And lots of teachers of color warned us about all of it.