Mark Dayton’s latest ad claims that, while Minnesota schools have “failed”, that\u00a0“Mark Dayton was a teacher”, and that he “knows what needs to be done” to fix education.<\/p>\n
Does he, then?<\/p>\n
By that, do they mean teachers should only show up 1\/3 of time when they’re teaching, and quit in the middle of the year?<\/p>\n
Or do they mean the state should push the same kind of alternative licensure that put Dayton in the classroom in the first place.<\/p>\n
Or do they just mean that we taxpayers should just shut up and give them all the money the union demands via the DFL?<\/p>\n
Since I just went to school in North Dakota – a state that spends much less per student, and gets better results – I need this explained to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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