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motivation and rationale for the policy. The presentation included quotes from Equity Literacy Institute founder Nita Mosby Tyler alongside national, state and local academic data classified by racial groups. Prefacing the demographic data, Kaplan said the district’s achievement gaps are caused by opportunity gaps. “It is clear not everyone has the same opportunity as a white student in this district or as a wealthy student in this district or as a male student in this district,” Kaplan said. Kaplan pointed to several data points, including how students classified as Latinx comprise 9...

Conservative Common Sense Summit School District has been under siege from a social justice warrior for the past year. Superintendent Marion Smith Jr. has imported his radical left philosophy and imposed critical race theory on unsuspecting Summit County students, parents and teachers. During hiring interviews, did the local school board members bother to ask him what philosophy he would use to administer our school district? Was he quizzed on his left-wing background or his goals to transform the local population with his radical social justice agenda? Why are school board members now surpri...

Students walk out of class to protest racial injustice Minnesota students walk out of class to protest racial injustice The demonstrations came in response to the police shooting of Daunte Wright and concerns about racism in schools.  April 19, 2021 — 2:07pm Text size Copy shortlink: Students from dozens of Minnesota schools walked out of their classrooms Monday afternoon, in a coordinated protest against racial injustice and the killing of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old man shot by a police officer in a t...

Application Deadline:May 5, 2021 The pandemic has exacerbated the importance of being connected in order to access jobs, training, and markets. However, the digital economy excludes over half of the world’s population who remain disconnected from the web, with more than half of Africa still offline, and 37 percent of rural US households with no access to broadband. This is an enormous missed opportunity: connecting the rest of the world could add $6.7 trillion to the economy and lift 500 million people out of poverty.  Building an inclusive digital economy—that affords everyone ...

Community rallies to support Minnetonka teacher threatened for discussing Black trans woman during morning announcements Parents and community members are calling on the district to do better and will hold a march prior to the school board meeting on Thursday. Author: Parents and community members in Minnetonka are rallying behind a teacher who has faced threats and criticism after sharing the legacy of a Black transgender activist during the morning announcements last month, and they're calling on the school district to do more to show they stand with educators and BIPOC and LGBTQ+ students....