Thursday, February 1, 2018

Weekly Standard - Edina, MN: Inside a Public School Social Justice Factory - District schools once considered gold standard now poor-performance indoctrination camps--even bus drivers must be re-educated! --tma






For decades, the public schools of Edina, Minnesota, were the gold standard among the state’s school districts. Edina is an upscale suburb of Minneapolis, but virtually overnight, its reputation has changed. Academic rigor is unraveling, high school reading and math test scores are sliding, and students increasingly fear bullying and persecution.
The shift began in 2013, when Edina school leaders adopted the “All for All” strategic plan—a sweeping initiative that reordered the district’s mission from academic excellence for all students to “racial equity.” ...