Education Standards' Legislative Mission
Minnesota's education law and longstanding policy is currently being run thin by a movement seeking to capture schools to promote social theory.
This Legislative Session has seen Minnesota's education policy come under proposals for a system further diverted from academics. Bureaucrats' model progresses down a vision of reorienting the teacher's role to that of "classroom monitor."
Current policy trends reflect an inclination to abuse power for political propagandizing.
Minnesota's Constitution has a serious and solemn mandate upon the school system that does not tolerate this corruption. It requires serious academic skills-training to ensure the population's intelligence as citizens and economic contributors.
Below is an interesting recent discussion focusing on Virginia's schools, where one of the wealthiest counties in the nation is disastrously failing due to dubious policy selection. These same ideologies are making headway in the Minnesota Legislature, this Session, undermining the academic foundational that had long contributed to the success of Minnesota generations.
Minnesota should be able to look forward to having the best educational policy in the nation with a system that should produce leading academic talent. Standards should foster academic acadmic achievement and learning capacity. Getting standards right means mandating only the right things and measures to preserve and facilitate liberty for individual school programs.
Moving forward with education policy will involve ensuring academic skills development is prioritized and fairly recognized when objective standards are reached and that parents and communities are empowered.