February 28, 2018 Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School policies paved the way for February 14th massacre Similar programs in place in Minnesota By Donna Azarian While Americans wrack their brains to understand the high school massacre in Parklands, Florida on February 14th, alarming new information points to a dangerous school discipline policy that set […]
Dayton Appointees Insert Mandatory ‘Social Justice’ into Teacher Licensing
February 2018 Dayton Appointees Insert Mandatory ‘Social Justice’ into Teacher Licensing Should ‘Social Justice’ ideology be mandated for all public & non-public teachers? Newly appointed members of a new MN teacher licensing agency are overriding legislators to force an extremist ‘social justice’ agenda on teachers and classrooms. Newly formed Professional Educators Licensure & Standards Board (PELSB). New […]
WARNING: Teachers Trained to Advocate for Islam!
“Culturally-relevant pedagogy” What is “culturally relevant” Muslim pedagogy? Seminar: Engaging Muslim Students in Public Schools Who is Michael Abraham? Curriculum in Our Schools On October 14, 2017, Hamline University hosted a seminar by Michael Abraham from Abraham Educational Services on how public schools can increase “engagement of Muslim students with culturally relevant pedagogy” and “honor […]
Racial Quotas in School Discipline Creating Unsafe Classrooms
December 19, 2017 Racial Quotas in School Discipline Creating Unsafe Classrooms The U.S. Department of Education issued a “guidance” to schools [referred to as a “Dear Colleague Letter,” January 2014] that threatened schools with loss of federal funding if students of color are disciplined more frequently than white students. That directive was promoted as a […]
3 Things to Know About the Toolkit
August 2017 The Great Unmasking Minnesota’s adoption of the Toolkit to Ensure Safe and Supportive Schools to Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students on July 19th was a hot topic all over state and national news, talk shows, blogs and social media. What started as a yearlong stealth project within the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) […]
The future of the ‘Toolkit to Ensure Safe and Supportive Schools for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students’
July 2017 The date for adopting the “Toolkit” was rescheduled after the public, belatedly informed that such a document was pending inundated the MDE with emails and phone calls. And after legislators publicly registered their opposition, Legislator’s Letter to Commissioner (PDF), the MDE posted this message on their website: Thank you to everyone who submitted […]
MN Department of Ed Gone Rogue Look Who’s Running State Ed Policy
July 2017 The MN Department of Education (MDE) is run by people who are a danger to our children and an offense to parents, taxpayers, and the public. There is no polite way to say it. The gender ideology ‘guidance’ coming out of the MDE does not promote the safety and well-being of children. The […]
Court Dismisses Anmarie Calgaro Lawsuit
May 26, 2017 St. Paul – On Tuesday, May 23rd, St. Paul District Judge Paul Magnuson dismissed all claims against state and county agencies and a private health facility, ruling that Anmarie Calgaro civil rights were NOT violated despite the fact that these entities treated her minor son as an adult, providing services and benefits […]
Toolkit already used as Ed Department ‘Best Practice’
May 22, 2017 By now you may have seen for yourself the shocking Minnesota Department of Education’s Toolkit to Ensure Safe and Supportive Schools to Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students. [See CPL May 9th update here.] More shocking yet, however, is the fact that the Toolkit is a written and public unveiling of what the […]
MN Rolls Out Lawless School Gender “Toolkit”
May 9, 2017
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is only weeks away from distributing a state directive to ALL Minnesota schools to have boys and girls share bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, in spite of the fact that the Trump administration has rescinded the Obama school transgender mandate. [Continue reading…]