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@BettyMcCollum04 OMG...Just stop!

Tomorrow marks six years since George Floyd was murdered. While we have made great progress to improve safety and accountability here in Minnesota, we must do more in Washington to honor his legacy by passing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Progress cannot wait.

@PhillyCSteak1 @jenteach13 National Education Association: 2.5 million members with $390 million collected in dues, American Federation of Teachers: 1.8 million members with over $200 million collected in dues.

@jenteach13 Most teachers in the US are not in unions. Only big cities. Most teachers have no support or limited representation.

Every time a teacher says something true in public, the replies come. Stop complaining. Teachers are the biggest whiners. Leave if you don't like it. You're robbing taxpayers. Think about the teacher two years in, watching that happen to someone with thirty years. Think about what she decides.

@MYDFL @LisaDemuthMN False equivalency! We love our children. We want to protect our children from the lunatic left!

Minnesotans want an assault weapons ban, and @LisaDemuthMN is standing in the way. She and the MNGOP are continuing to prove that they love their guns more than they love Minnesota’s children. Let’s vote them out.

@DemzDeliver So they're spending more taxpayer money to pay people to do a job they already should've been doing? How long will it be before we hire people to oversee the overseers?

🚨 HUGE: Minnesota Democrats just created an independent office to aggressively go after fraud.

@nytimes Why would anyone believe the NY Times, the FDA or Tim Walz? There's zero proof any of them care about the average American!

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. nyti.ms/49dtF24

@SethLargo Typical of wanting instant gratification and thinking an intervention will immediately bring positive results. Many of these kids are full blown addicts and cannot be helped in such a short time frame.

We need to kill this narrative. Over the last few years, the concerns about tech in K-12 had little to do with test scores. The concerns were psychological, social, and spiritual. Don't let the media do this "oh, scores haven't improved" thing. It'll be a back door for tech to return.

I FULLY support increasing teachers pay, but… this is not about teachers pay. Dems have co-opted teachers around the country into protesting against the current administration. All in the name of an obvious issue, low salaries. It’s smoke and mirrors, folks. The number of administrators has grown 20 times larger than the number of students. Admissions are declining. Literacy is declining. The real answer if you actually care about teachers… Mass deportations and firing of bloated administrations.

@oftenuncommon @HistoryBoutique Imagine if all those union dues went towards improving the schools they claim to help.

@HistoryBoutique Teachers unions are a net negative for our education system and our children.

@DemGovs @MNUpNorthLakeG1 @Tim_Walz Wow! This is one of the most delusional gaslighting pure BS posts I've come across!

Thanks to Gov. @Tim_Walz’s leadership, Minnesota is a great place to live, work, grow up, and grow old. That’s what electing a Dem Gov can do.

@ChrisDJackson @JoeBiden No daily embarrassment with Biden? You can't be serious!

Who else misses the boring, no-drama days of @JoeBiden? No chaos. No circus. No daily embarrassment. Just quiet competence from a president who actually knew how to do the job.

@FranklyTherese @FixingEducation What are your thoughts on students having 48 hours to do the retake? In addition, before they are allowed to do the retake they have to make up all missing assignments. Students will not be penalized for a retake, they will get all points earned.

@FixingEducation When students found out that my retakes include remedial work before taking a completely different test, they no longer even ask.

When schools require teachers to offer retakes & accept late work, they also need to provide teachers the extra time those requirements take.

@RealJamesWoods It looks similar to the student to administration ratio.

Absolutely astonishing.

@FixingEducation Number 1 is first for a reason!

What are the costliest areas of WASTE in school district spending? 1. 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗮𝘁. Growth in non-instructional roles often outpaces classroom needs. 2. 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 3. 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀. Schools often buy expensive or quickly outdated technology without a clear implementation plan, resulting in wasted funds. 4. 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 & 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀. Districts overpay for resources that are underused or replaced too frequently. 5. 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗗 6. 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀. Districts frequently implement new initiatives without properly assessing their effectiveness, leading to repeated cycles of expensive but ineffective programs. 7. 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗮𝘄𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘀. Many districts face high costs from lawsuits, often due to poor policy enforcement, special education disputes, or mismanagement. 8. 𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀. Mostly due to poor regulation.

@AlphaNews Cities Church has a King and protesters don't like kings.

Cities Church parishioners continue to be ‘hounded’ and ‘harassed’ by anti-ICE protesters, churchgoer says "They block the sidewalk and are cussing us out as we walk into church," a churchgoer told Crime Watch Minneapolis. "I just want the freedom to worship without [fear] and not be hounded or harassed."

@ZzimulaHenry @iky_fwjett Trusting someone that's not trustworthy is not that simple.

@iky_fwjett What you're doing is pointless. You realise that you lost two parents ?? Carry on with your mum, wrongs can be forgiven

@jmmencia Kudos! Predicting, making connections, visualizing, summarizing and questioning are core reading strategies for comprehension.

Tengo una compañera profesora que no solo lee con su hija por las noches, sino que después de cada página, le hace preguntas. ¿Qué crees que va a pasar ahora? ¿Por qué crees que el personaje hizo eso? ¿Tú qué habrías hecho? Y en esa conversación está pasando algo que el colegio rara vez enseña: su hija está aprendiendo a pensar, no solo a leer. A conectar ideas, a anticipar consecuencias, a tener criterio propio. No pude hacer otra cosa que aplaudirla 👏👏

@sharenwendy @FixingEducation The "participation" part in the comparison is questionable.

@FixingEducation Graduating with a diploma used to mean something. Today, of the 3.7-3.9 mil students graduating & receiving diplomas, only 22% are proficient in math & 35% in reading. Diplomas for all, just like participation trophies. These same illiterate kids are preyed upon by colleges.

How did we get to a point where students can miss 50+ days, struggle with basic reading and math, and still get promoted? Then we act surprised when they’re years behind. This didn’t happen overnight…it’s been building for decades.

@AGEllison Safe and effective correct? Trust the science right?

I’ve said it before and I’ll said it again: Gender-affirming care is healthcare, period. It is evidence-based, backed by the American Medical Association, and helps trans individuals live their lives with the dignity we all deserve. Gender-affirming care saves lives.

@AmyHockert There are plenty of studies showing learning cursive helps and enhances reading and spelling. It's not simply a nice thing to have and perhaps there's a correlation to the sorry state of reading and learning.

Minnesota State Senator Ann Rest proposing a cursive bill. Says she was heartbroken when she gave her grandchild a card and he handed it back because he couldn't read it. Should our kids learn cursive in elementary school?

@MrsMACisback I ask math teachers every year why it went away. The answer, we want kids to learn the process. Why not both?

Bring back multiplication timed tests in elementary school!