{"id":1364953,"date":"2022-03-08T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1364953"},"modified":"2022-03-08T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T18:31:17","slug":"minneapolis-teachers-go-on-strike-for-pay-increases-more-educators-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minneapolis-teachers-go-on-strike-for-pay-increases-more-educators-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis Teachers Go On Strike For Pay Increases, More \u2018Educators Of Color\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fminneapolis-teachers-go-on-strike-for-pay-increases-more-educators-of-color%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=1364953&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/03\/School-Hallway.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) will begin a strike on Thursday for the first time in decades \u2014 shutting 30,000 students out of the classroom for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mft59.org\/strike-readiness\"><span>reasons<\/span><\/a><span> that include the \u201crecruitment and retention of educators of color.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAbout 3,500 Minneapolis teachers and education support professionals will participate in the strike,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2022\/03\/07\/minneapolis-teachers-start-strike\/\"><span>CBS Minnesota<\/span><\/a><span> reported. \u201cTheir demands include a living wage for the support professionals staff, smaller class sizes and a counselor and social worker at every school. They\u2019re also looking for more educators of color and higher teacher salaries. The average for Minneapolis teachers is $71,000.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>MFT President Greta Callahan said that \u201cthose at the top of this district continue to hoard power,\u201d claiming that \u201cif we don\u2019t intervene, we believe the Minneapolis Public Schools will cease to exist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, Minneapolis Public Schools signaled that they would be willing to cooperate: \u201cWhile it is disappointing to hear this news, we know our organizations\u2019 mutual priorities are based on our deep commitment to the education of Minneapolis students. MPS will remain at the mediation table non-stop in an effort to reduce the length and impact of this strike.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>MFT\u2019s website features a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mft59.org\/racial-justice-resources\"><span>webpage<\/span><\/a><span> with \u201canti-racist\u201d and \u201cracial justice\u201d resources, including an \u201cAnti-Racism Daily\u201d email newsletter and \u201cRacial Equity Advocacy Training.\u201d The webpage suggests various anti-racist books, including How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/07\/us\/minneapolis-st-paul-teachers-strike.html\"><span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a><span> reported, Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Ed Graff has said that the district is facing challenges due to falling enrollment numbers \u2014 necessitating cuts to school budgets. Total enrollment from kindergarten through high school plummeted below 30,000 at the start of this school year, down from nearly 33,600 in the fall of 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In nearby St. Paul \u2014 which saw enrollment decline from 37,000 to 34,000 over the same period \u2014 strikes were averted as the St. Paul Federation of Teachers and St. Paul Public Schools negotiated a tentative agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Indeed, COVID-19 lockdowns and the rising popularity of left-wing instruction in public schools \u2014 especially Critical Race Theory (CRT) and LGBTQ ideology \u2014 has motivated many parents to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/south-carolina-lawmakers-introduce-1000-homeschool-tax-credit-bill\"><span>seek<\/span><\/a><span> new educational opportunities for their children. From March 2020 to September 2020 alone, homeschooling rates across the United States grew between 5.4% and 11%. Over the same period, the United States Department of Education has seen public school enrollment diminish \u201cby its largest margin in at least two decades\u201d \u2014 a drop representing a 3% loss in enrollment between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/as-private-and-charter-schools-grew-1-4-million-children-left-traditional-public-schools-during-covid\"><span>revealed<\/span><\/a><span> that charter school enrollment increased by 7.1% during the 2020-2021 school year \u2014 marking the category\u2019s largest expansion in five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNearly 240,000 new students enrolled in these innovative, student-centered public schools, despite a sharp decrease in overall public school enrollment during the same period,\u201d the analysis explained. \u201cOf the 42 states evaluated, 39 experienced charter school enrollment increases, while only three saw modest decreases. By comparison, district school enrollment dropped precipitously in every state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) will begin a strike on Thursday for the first time in decades \u2014 shutting 30,000 students out of the classroom for reasons that include<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1364953","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\/1364953","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364953\/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=1364953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}