{"id":83102,"date":"2022-08-15T14:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83102"},"modified":"2022-08-15T14:09:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:09:55","slug":"while-building-the-case-that-public-schools-are-essential-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83102","title":{"rendered":"While Building The Case That &#8220;Public Schools Are Essential For Democracy&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;one might be well-placed to shuffle past the Minneapolis Public Schools&#8217; latest collective bargaining agreement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before \u201ceducators of color\u201d in the event Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) needs to reduce staff. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K62vfM2NaV\">https:\/\/t.co\/K62vfM2NaV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1558796642534494208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To be, uh, fair, it doesn&#8217;t mean all white teachers get laid off before all minority ones.  The union would never go for that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, just that honkeys are first people at any given level of <em>seniority<\/em> to get whacked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>One of the proposals dealt with \u201ceducators of color protections.\u201d The agreement states that if a non-white teacher is subject to excess, MPS must excess a white teacher with the \u201cnext least\u201d seniority.<\/p><p>\u201cStarting with the Spring 2023 Budget Tie-Out Cycle, if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population,\u201d the agreement reads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;ll fix that achievement gap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;one might be well-placed to shuffle past the Minneapolis Public Schools&#8217; latest collective bargaining agreement: To be, uh, fair, it doesn&#8217;t mean all white teachers get laid off before all minority ones. The union would never go for that. No, just that honkeys are first people at any given level of seniority to get whacked. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83108,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83102\/revisions\/83108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}