April 2020
Submitted as a letter to the editor by Barb Anderson to ABC Newspapers published May 13, 2020
This letter is to alert citizens to the Minnesota Department of Education’s proposed plan to expand their current definition of gender beyond male/female. MDE should establish policy based on facts—not feelings. No child is born in the wrong body, no child is ‘assigned’ [Read More]
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) was busted, no longer under the radar, [Read More]
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 comments and suggestions to [Read More]
July 13, 2017
“Toolkit” Part of SSTAC Agenda |
➤ CPL Key Concerns Regarding Revised Toolkit (PDF) ➤ Toolkit to Ensure Safe and Supportive Schools to Transgender and Gender [Read More] |
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 SSTAC has been presenting [Read More]
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have boys and girls share bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, in spite of the fact that the Trump administration has rescinded the Obama school transgender mandate.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...]
February 22, 2017
The Minnesota Department of Education held its annual Safe and Supportive Schools Conference on January 25th, 2017. The conference is for Minnesota educators, school support staff, parents, student leaders and education stakeholders. The primary focus of the conference was Social Emotional Learning (SEL). SEL is the most recent, aggressively marketed educational strategy for transforming the attitudes, values and [Read More]