Saint Paul Public Schools

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Superintendent Joe Gothard said in an interview that he was unaware of the audit when he picked Dutrieuille as principal of the grades K-8 Hazel Park Preparatory Academy on the…

St. Paul educator spoke on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to support Mark Janus.

The Star Tribune has published two counterpoints to my March 18 op-ed on the racial discipline gap in Minnesota schools [“Undisciplined: Chaos may be coming to Minnesota classrooms by decree.”]…

A state agency aims to eliminate racial disparities in schools’ response to misbehavior. Its destabilizing course would only spread the disruption.  This commentary originally appeared in the Star Tribune as…

American Experiment’s Katherine Kersten warns in today’s Star Tribune of a secret war on teachers and school discipline being funded by taxpayers and directed by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. Brace…

The former president of the teachers’ union in St. Paul Public Schools has broken ranks with the St. Paul Federation of Teachers’ hardline leadership. In a tough rebuke to labor…

Kersten testimony cites chaos in St. Paul schools.

A round-up of the last week's economic news stories in Minnesota.

The lawsuit states Benner believed the district's racial equity policy was not holding African American students accountable for behavior issues as opposed to students of other races, and that policy…

These days more than ever teachers need to know school administrators have their back. But a case of a beaten-up teacher shows St. Paul Public Schools care more about political correctness than…

Obsessed with 'racial equality,' St. Paul Schools abandoned discipline - and unleashed mayhem.

St. Paul schools continue the reign of disarray.

St. Paul public school officials continue their hapless quest to staunch the growing in-school violence that is terrifying teachers and driving families out of the district. The task force was…

St. Paul public school leaders seem determined that chaos should reign in the district’s high school hallways.  The school board’s contract for “school resource officers” (SROs) is up for renewal…

On Tuesday, hundreds of teachers attending the American Federation of Teachers convention in Minneapolis joined a Black Lives Matter march through the city’s downtown. They said they were protesting the…

Are Education Minnesota’s union rules protecting incompetent classroom teachers a key factor in the state’s appalling achievement gap for poor and minority students? That’s the gist of a lawsuit being…