"Poof" isn't normally the sound you hear when a state agency uploads a new database to its website. But if you listened closely as the Minnesota Department of Education uploaded its new school rankings database last month, that's exactly what you heard. Why is that?...
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Minnesota’s 2009 Teacher of the Year almost never was.
Following her first year of teaching she was laid off from a school in Minneapolis. Fortunately, she stuck with teaching, found another job and eight years later was chosen from more than a hundred nominees to earn the award. With half of all new teachers leaving the profession in the first five years, it is truly to her credit that she...
“Not since the business community worked with Governor Perpich to pass open enrollment and post-secondary enrollment option legislation have Minnesota employers had this much reason to be excited about the prospects for real education reform."...