Minnsanity

Corporate Education Reform is chopping away at public schools in Minnesota. Stop the Minnsanity!

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

So now the U of M is in on the grift - they got a $450k contract to figure out what's wrong with charters! I would have told them for free - the whole paradigm is rotten to the core and cannot be saved

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[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

Congratulations to Jeffrey Meitrodt on a great series on charter schools in Minnesota. He's done us all a service - now it's up to legislators to do their duty. He's a good example of why we need to understand the role of individuals in mass comm orgs

https://t.co/JmtX9YvbwI

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

One thing to notice about this is how cavalierly the Mpls City Council gave Seed $15 million essentially for the Mahmouds' shitty segregated charter schools. The council gave zero thought to the city's own school district, which provides a much better education

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

There's a LOT more to the Best Academy charter school scandal that local media is not interested in

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

Mahmoud finally gone. Good riddance. Now close his awful charter schools

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[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

I already did all the work for them - yet no MN journalists will touch this. This is from TMS' strategic document from 2014, it lays out the whole plan:

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

In case anyone is interested, I had Eric Mahmoud's number more than a decade ago. The rest of the media is just catching up

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[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

I guess @mplsfoundation, despite blocking me, actually reads my social media posts. For a few years I noted how they wanted to re-imagine education WITHOUT TEACHERS. Well they updated the graphic

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

From my upcoming blowout on the @MplsFoundation 's plan to destroy the Minneapolis public school district, a 2012 powerpoint spelled it all out:

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

Hard to believe now, but there was a day when the biggest stories centered on Minnesota were reported by local media

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[Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦📚🌈🗽🌹🇨🇱❤️ @DianeRavitch]

Florida Congressman of far-right takes the place of DeVos https://t.co/pLcJxiCpdH

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

After you read that BS story on TFA in today's @MNReformer click over to my page on KIPP Minnesota - the school that uses the most TFA teachers in the state. Take a look at the proficiency rates and how KIPP is a deliberately segregated charter school. https://t.co/MVkdXiKfj0

[jjake61 @jjake61]

sigh. I remember the days when the District was run by actual teachers. #Mckinsey wrecked so many things but the most damaging thing was bringing in corporatists to run our district

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

Guess how many charter schools have opened in Minneapolis over the years. 10? 20? 50? 100? By 2022 107 charters had opened in MINNEAPOLIS ALONE and 50 of those had closed! That's how business philanthropy rolls

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[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

It's a tiny victory in the @StarTribune when they write an education story and don't talk to a know-nothing shill paid for by the @MplsFoundation. Kudos @MaraKlecker

https://t.co/P1yE6WCrZQ

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

This is gonna be epic as Callahan is running in RT Rybak's neighborhood. The @mplsfoundation will pull out all the stops to stop her, including using failson's two media outlets, @EquityMPS, and Rashad Turner's MN Parent Union; daddy funds ALL OF THOSE! https://t.co/u13OopjEvB

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

This is a BIG LIE because the Mpls teachers won UNPRECEDENTED gains for teachers of color! Yet Hawkins is calling her a racist, and the Mpls Foundation funded entities like @EquityMPS actually tried to take credit for the gains won by the union. Really shameful behavior

[Rob Levine is on Blue Sky @roblevine82]

Greta Callahan has been a school board candidate for less than a day and the business philanthropy funded "journalists" are already calling her a racist. Remember that as union prez Callahan won UNPRECEDENTED gains for teachers of color

[James Rehwald @JamesRehwald]

A capitalist visited my workplace to teach us a valuable lesson

[Jack Dudley @jackdudley_mn]

Corporate greed at its finest, y’all. We knew they would be resistant to reforms that put patients over profits, but it’s absolutely unconscionable that “mother Mayo” would hold Minnesotans hostage in this way. We won’t abide. #mnleg

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