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Facing federal scrutiny, Minneapolis schools are considering revisions to a discipline policy that is intended to keep order in classrooms but has imposed heavier penalties on black and American Indian students, especially boys and special education students. The first revision in 10 years - and the fifth in the past 30 - comes before the school board Tuesday night. It places a new emphasis on measures designed to address the behavior of disruptive students while keeping them in school. C...
The contest to get appointed to the school board vacancy created by the death of Hussein Samatar appears to be shaping up as a race between candidates with few, if any, ties to the district. All but one of five applicants for the post have moved into the district recently, in some cases after Samatar died on Aug. 28. The lone exception is Samatar’s widow, Ubah Ali Jama. She has lived in District 3 since at least 1999, when she and Samatar bought their home in the Phillips neighborhood. The school board declared that an individual needs to be a...
An influential collection of metro-area organizations goes public Thursday with a new attempt to focus the spending of millions intended to erase the achievement gap in inner-city schools. The Generation Next partnership, to be formally announced Thursday, will focus first on fostering research-based strategies for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in Minneapolis and St. Paul, both district and charter schools. But it hopes to expand to suburban districts if it demonstrates results. New federal data this week indicated that...
