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Minnesota Black School Choice Movement ‘Explicitly Rejects’ U.S. Is Racist Nation 10 May 2021 A Minnesota school choice movement founded in the black community aims to challenge the “woke” culture narrative that America is a systemically racist nation “structured to undermine the lives of black Americans.” TakeCharge Minnesota says its objective is “to inspire and educate the black community and other minority groups in the Twin Cities to take charge of their own lives, the lives ...

A Mother’s Day Wish This ad advocating school choice appeared in today’s Star Tribune. It is hard-hitting and entirely accurate: The ad was placed by TakeCharge Minnesota, which is run by my friend Kendall Qualls. The ad cites the fact that black children in Mississippi do better in school, based on standardized tests, than black children in Minnesota. This is correct, and one could add that Mississippi’s scores are getting better, while Minnesota’s are getting worse. This fact was une...

Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) wants to rewrite history or erase it from the public school curriculum. “Systemic racism” and “awareness” Shockingly, the MDE also proposed the erasure of vital historical moments like the Civil War, the American Revolution, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Instead of studying these important figures and moments in American and world history, students will be taught about other topics such as: Gender equality How freedom and democracy incl...

Minnesota K-12 Social Studies Draft Dumps Major U.S. Historical Events for ‘Systemic Racism’ 15 Jan 2021 The Minnesota Department of Education has released its first draft of K-12 social studies standards for the next ten years, a proposal that omits most of the significant events in American history and focuses, instead, on “systemic racism” and the oppression of “marginalized” people throughout U.S. and Minnesota history. The entire draft can be viewed here. It includes the follow...

What We Teach Our Children Is there anything more important than how we raise our children? How we educate them, how we tell them what the world is like, who we are, and where we came from? I don’t think so. Leftists don’t think so, either, which is why they took over our public school systems long ago. My state, Minnesota, is typical. Our citizens lean right. I say that because my organization does quarterly polling on issues, and we have never found an issue where the liberal position is ...