{"id":1148353,"date":"2021-12-23T23:04:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T04:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1148353"},"modified":"2021-12-23T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T04:04:46","slug":"minnesota-school-board-votes-unanimously-to-allow-extra-pay-for-non-white-teachers-racial-segregation-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesota-school-board-votes-unanimously-to-allow-extra-pay-for-non-white-teachers-racial-segregation-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota School Board Votes Unanimously to Allow Extra Pay for Non-White Teachers, Racial Segregation of Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fminnesota-school-board-votes-unanimously-to-allow-extra-pay-for-non-white-teachers-racial-segregation-of-staff%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1148353&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Black-Teachers-Given-Preferential-Pay-Segregated-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Mankato School Board in Minnesota voted unanimously for a new policy that allows non-white teachers exclusively to be eligible for \u201cadditional stipends,\u201d and for teachers to be segregated by race.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Mankato School Board voted earlier this month to allow the district to intentionally place BIPOC teachers in the same work environment \u2014 effectively segregating their workforce. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xsJ1FE4GBK\">https:\/\/t.co\/xsJ1FE4GBK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1473669666652393472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The policy <a href=\"http:\/\/mankatoaps.swagit.com\/play\/12082021-1029\/#21\">states<\/a> professional development funds may be used as:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>additional stipends as incentives to mentors of color or who are American Indian;<\/li>\n<li>financial supports for professional learning community affinity groups across schools within and between districts for teachers from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to come together throughout the school year;<\/li>\n<li>programs for induction aligned with the school district or school mentorship program during the first three (3) years of teaching, especially for teachers from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Grants for these purposes may be used for \u201cretention strategies or protection from unrequested leave of absences in the beginning years of employment for teachers of color and teachers who are American Indian,\u201d the policy states, adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Retention strategies may include providing financial incentives for teachers of color and teachers who are American Indian \u2026 and placing American Indian educators at sites with other American Indian educators and educators of color at sites with other educators of color to reduce isolation and increase opportunity for collegial support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">School board votes unanimously on a policy that would pay non-white teachers more and place them in work environments based on their race (segregation).<br \/>Here a member defends the decision. Unreal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zMMY5oytEZ\">pic.twitter.com\/zMMY5oytEZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1473519562071048192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Board members <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/mankato-schools-vote-to-allow-extra-pay-for-non-white-teachers\/\">defended<\/a> the policy of placing same-race teachers in work environments, claiming it is not \u201csegregation,\u201d reported AlphaNews Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re one [minority] of a [white] majority it can be very isolating and lonely,\u201d said board member Erin Roberts, elaborating:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To have a support system in place for them is not to segregate them, it is absolutely to support them \u2026 It\u2019s not about trying to throw the few [BIPOC] individuals we have into one building. It\u2019s about showing them they aren\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt creates global citizens at the end of the day,\u201d Vice Chair Kenneth Reid also said, according to AlphaNews.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RepresentativeJeremyMunson\/posts\/463838728634169\" data-width=\"640\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/100050241380363\/posts\/463838728634169\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Our largest local school district just voted to pay people differently, not on merit, or by the content of their\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RepresentativeJeremyMunson\">Representative Jeremy Munson<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/100050241380363\/posts\/463838728634169\/\">Sunday, December 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>State Rep. Jeremy Munson (R), however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/login\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRepresentativeJeremyMunson%2Fposts%2F463838728634169\">condemned<\/a> the new policy, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/statutes\/cite\/122A.70\">mirrors<\/a> a new Minnesota statute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur largest local school district just voted to pay people differently, not on merit, or by the content of their character, but based solely on the color of their skin,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mankato School Board in Minnesota voted unanimously for a new policy that allows non-white teachers exclusively to be eligible for \u201cadditional stipends,\u201d and for teachers to be segregated by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}