{"id":2331539,"date":"2024-08-27T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T12:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-tim-walz-minnesota-banned-christian-teachers\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T08:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T12:55:24","slug":"under-tim-walz-minnesota-banned-christian-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-tim-walz-minnesota-banned-christian-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Tim Walz, Minnesota Banned Christian Teachers"},"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\">14<\/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%2Funder-tim-walz-minnesota-banned-christian-teachers%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=2331539&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--><p>Starting July\u2063 2025, new teacher licensing rules in Minnesota \u2064will \u2063prohibit practicing Christians, Jews, and\u200b Muslims from \u2062teaching in public schools, a policy approved under Democratic Governor Tim\u200d Walz. These\u200d regulations require teacher candidates to\u2063 affirm\u2063 transgender identities and principles\u200d aligned with critical race \u200dtheory, effectively excluding religious \u2062individuals who cannot \u2063align with these \u2062beliefs\u2064 from obtaining teaching licenses. \u2064The changes \u2062also impact universities, which\u2063 must train their education \u200cstudents accordingly to \u200ccontinue offering state licenses.<\/p>\n<p>The new\u200b standards \u2064mandate that teachers\u2063 create an inclusive \u2063environment \u200dby affirming various identities, including race, gender, and sexual\u2063 orientation. Previous requirements established since 2020 already necessitate evidence \u200bof &#8220;cultural competency&#8221; concerning topics like gender identity\u2062 and sexual orientation \u200dfor license renewals. Critics, including Doug Seaton from \u2064the Upper Midwest Law\u200c Center,\u2063 argue that\u2062 these measures violate religious freedoms and compel teachers \u2064to \u200bconvey beliefs contrary to\u2063 their faith. <\/p>\n<p>The broader implications suggest\u2064 a \u200cpush towards enforced compliance \u2062with progressive ideologies within educational systems, paralleling other curricular shifts \u200dunder Walz&#8217;s administration that emphasize\u2063 race and\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-mixed-reviews-godzilla-x-kong-blows-past-expectations-we-are-in-a-good-position\/\" title=\"Godzilla vs. Kong&#039; Surpasses Expectations Despite Mixed Reviews, Putting Us in a Strong Position\">social justice themes<\/a>. Critics also warn that \u200dsuch changes have contributed\u2063 to\u2064 a decline \u200din educational \u2062outcomes in Minnesota.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Effective July 2025, teacher licensing rules passed last year in Minnesota under Democrat Gov. Tim Walz will ban practicing Christians, Jews, and Muslims from teaching in public schools. Walz is now the presidential running mate of current U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. His resume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-politics-and-policy\/tim-walz-lgbtq-rights-issues-teacher-governor-rcna165622\">includes<\/a> a stint as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-school-choice-debate-boils-down-to-taxpayer-dollars\/\" title=\"School choice debate centers on taxpayer funds.\">high school social studies teacher<\/a> who sponsored a student queer sex club in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Starting next July, Minnesota agencies controlled by Walz appointees will require teacher license applicants to affirm transgenderism and race Marxism. Without a teaching license, individuals cannot work in Minnesota public schools, nor in the private schools that require such licenses. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/pelsb\/assets\/Standards%20of%20Effective%20Practice%20-%2006.2023%20-%20Accessible_tcm1113-579957.pdf\">latest version<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/pelsb\/board\/rulemaking\/licensing-academic-standards\/\">regulations<\/a> requires teachers to &ldquo;affirm&rdquo; students&rsquo; &ldquo;gender identity&rdquo; and &ldquo;sexual orientation&rdquo; to receive a Minnesota teaching license:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The teacher fosters an environment that ensures student identities such as race\/ethnicity, national origin, language, <strong>sex and gender, gender identity, sexual orientation<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesota-will-soon-make-teachers-endorse-child-mutilation-to-get-a-license\/\" title=\"Minnesota Will Soon Make Teachers Endorse Child Mutilation To Get A License\">physical\/developmental\/emotional ability<\/a>, socioeconomic class, and religious beliefs are historically and socially contextualized, <strong>affirmed<\/strong>, and incorporated into a learning environment where students are empowered to learn and contribute as their whole selves (emphasis added).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last spring, administrative law judges finally <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/pelsb\/assets\/Final%20Chief%20ALJ%20Order%20on%20Review%20of%20Rules%281%29_tcm1113-568216.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">approved <\/a>these pending changes The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/12\/minnesota-poised-to-ban-christians-muslims-and-jews-from-teaching-in-public-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> one month before they were finalized. Universities are also affected: starting in 2025, they must either train their teaching students to fulfill these anti-Christian requirements or be banned from offering state licensing &mdash; and thus the ticket to the vast majority of teaching jobs &mdash; to their students.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2020 in Minnesota, teachers renewing their licenses, which is usually required every five to seven years, must <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/pelsb\/current-educators\/trainings\/cct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demonstrate &ldquo;cultural competency<\/a>&rdquo; similar to the requirements imposed in 2025 on new teaching licensees. Teachers renewing their licensing must &ldquo;Show[] evidence of self-reflection and discussion of&rdquo; topics that include &ldquo;Gender Identity, Including Transgender Students&rdquo; and &ldquo;Sexual Orientation.&rdquo; They must also show they understand &ldquo;bias&rdquo; in themselves and their students related to race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other cultural Marxist categories.<\/p>\n<h2>Queer Totalitarianism Forces Religion Into the Closet<\/h2>\n<p>Some Christian universities in the state will obey these regulations, said Doug Seaton, founder and president of the nonprofit Upper Midwest Law Center, located in Minneapolis. Some Christian universities will not, but so far those UMLC has reached out to that plan to disobey these state commands to violate their faith will do so quietly and only sue when the state finds and punishes them, Seaton said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some are not willing to do it [file a lawsuit] until they actually have their college programs tagged for noncompliance or their graduates actually not licensed as a consequence of not adhering to these standards,&rdquo; he said in a phone interview. This comes even though UMLC, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-dominoes-are-falling-minnesota-gov-walz-rescinds-all-occupancy-requirements-on-churches-following-lawsuit\/\" title=\"\u2018The Dominoes Are Falling\u2019: Minnesota Gov. Walz Rescinds All Occupancy Requirements On Churches Following Lawsuit\">public interest law firm<\/a>, would undertake the litigation and pay the vast majority of its expenses thanks to their donors. Three Minnesota Christian universities The Federalist reached out to did not return inquiries on whether they would enforce the new licensing rules.<\/p>\n<p>Faithful members of the world&rsquo;s largest and oldest religions cannot in good conscience &ldquo;affirm&rdquo; non-heterosexual sexual orientations and gender identities. Christians who do so publicly deny their faith, something Jesus Christ <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/nkjv\/matthew\/10.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said endangers<\/a> a person&rsquo;s soul and eternal bliss after death: &ldquo;Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven&rdquo; (Matthew 10:32, 33).<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota&rsquo;s teacher requirements therefore force Christians, Muslims, Jews, and adherents to other religions to violate their faith and endanger their hopes of eternal life in order to work in government-run schools.<\/p>\n<p>Forcing people to testify to beliefs they don&rsquo;t hold, often called compelled speech, is clearly unconstitutional, he said: &ldquo;They&rsquo;re essentially requiring people to affirm these ideas that they don&rsquo;t really believe, in many cases, as a condition of being a public school teacher or being part of a program to be a licensed public school teacher. You can&rsquo;t force that kind of speech, you can&rsquo;t require adherence to ideas that aren&rsquo;t believed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The 13-member board that made these changes is appointed by the governor, whom for the last six years has been Walz. So, Walz is poised to make similar bigoted, totalitarian, and unconstitutional policies across the United States should he be elected vice president.<\/p>\n<h2>Marinating Kids In Anti-American Propaganda<\/h2>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/12\/minnesota-poised-to-ban-christians-muslims-and-jews-from-teaching-in-public-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> last year, Minnesota&rsquo;s new teacher requirements also &ldquo;require teachers to agree that the taxpayers supplying their salaries and the people who created the school system that will employ them are racists, and affirm other cultural Marxist beliefs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For example, Standard 6C requires that &lsquo;The teacher understands the historical foundations of education in Minnesota &hellip; that have and continue to create inequitable opportunities, experiences, and outcomes for learners &hellip; especially for &hellip; students historically denied access, underserved, or underrepresented on the basis of race &hellip; gender, sexual orientation.&#8217;&rdquo; That &ldquo;standard&rdquo; remains in the latest version of the regulations, under the same number.<\/p>\n<p>Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Katherine Kersten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/tim-walz-brings-liberated-ethnic-studies-to-minnesota-radical-decolinization-election-44a267ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">examined<\/a> curricular changes Minnesota is making under Walz&rsquo;s administration in &ldquo;ethnic studies&rdquo; that mirror these changes to teacher licensing requirements.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Walz signed the law establishing this initiative in 2023. The department&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/files.americanexperiment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2021-Minnesota-K12-Academic-Standards-in-Social-Studies-FINAL-1.pdf?v=1723063640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">standards and benchmarks<\/a>, approved in January, require first-graders to &lsquo;identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power&rsquo; and &lsquo;use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fourth-graders must &lsquo;identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.&rsquo; High-school students are told to &lsquo;develop an analysis of racial capitalism&rsquo; and &lsquo;anti-Blackness&rsquo; and are taught to view themselves as members of &lsquo;racialized hierarchies&rsquo; based on &lsquo;dominant European beauty standards.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new teacher requirements are also <a href=\"https:\/\/cplaction.com\/teacher-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rife with demands<\/a> to agree with race Marxism, as Child Protection League analyses <a href=\"https:\/\/cplaction.com\/teacher-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detail<\/a>. Below are just a few examples.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Walz&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/governor\/newsroom\/executive-orders\/#\/list\/appId\/1\/filterType\/\/filterValue\/\/page\/1\/sort\/Date\/order\/ascending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first<\/a> executive order as governor was to install a &ldquo;diversity, equity, and inclusion,&rdquo; or DEI, council. Former Minnesota state legislator Allen Quist <a href=\"https:\/\/juliequist.substack.com\/p\/tim-walz-on-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes<\/a> that &ldquo;The radical Walz administration Department of Human Rights has also forced school districts to report student discipline by race and require equal outcomes (equity) in discipline. The results have been horrific chaos and violence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During Walz&rsquo;s governorship, student achievement in Minnesota has gone from among the best in the nation to declining more sharply than anywhere else in the nation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/how-education-has-changed-under-gov-walz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> the Minneapolis-based Center for the American Experiment. The most recent scores show Minnesota fourth graders dipping below the national average in reading for the first time ever recorded on the well-respected Nation&rsquo;s Report Card.<\/p>\n<p>Research has <a href=\"https:\/\/eric.ed.gov\/?id=ED544449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/eric.ed.gov\/?id=ED460100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decades<\/a> that there is no link between teacher certification and student achievement. People who enter teaching with a degree other than in education <a href=\"https:\/\/heartland.org\/publications\/research-commentary-efforts-to-improve-teacher-quality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tend to have<\/a> significantly higher personal and student academic performance.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist. Her new book with Regnery is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a>.&#8221;  A happy wife and the mother of six children, her ebooks include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books For Young Children<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/a2Jzp\">101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation<\/a>.&#8221;      An 18-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media including Tucker Carlson, CNN, Fox News, OANN, NewsMax, Ben Shapiro, and Dennis Prager. Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs who identifies as native American and gender natural.  Joy is also the cofounder of a high-performing Christian classical school and the author and coauthor of classical curricula.    Her traditionally published books also include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1486730068&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in July 2025, new teacher licensing regulations enacted last year in Minnesota under Democratic Governor Tim Walz will prohibit practicing Christians, Jews, and Muslims from teaching in public schools. Walz is currently the vice-presidential candidate alongside U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and has a background as a high school social studies teacher who supported a student LGBTQ club back in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning next July, state agencies overseen by appointees of Walz will mandate that applicants for teaching licenses affirm beliefs related to transgender issues and critical race theory. Without this license, individuals cannot work in Minnesota&#8217;s public schools or private institutions that require such credentials.<\/p>\n<p>The updated regulations stipulate that teachers must &#8220;affirm&#8221; students&#8217; &#8220;gender identity&#8221; and &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; to obtain a teaching license in Minnesota. Specifically, teachers are expected to create an environment where various aspects of student identity\u2014including race\/ethnicity, national origin, language, sex and gender\u2014are acknowledged and integrated into the learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring saw administrative law judges approve these changes after they were reported by The Federalist prior to their finalization. Universities will also be impacted; starting in 2025 they must either train their education students according to these requirements or lose the ability to offer state licenses necessary for most teaching positions.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2020, teachers renewing their licenses\u2014typically required every five to seven years\u2014must demonstrate \u201ccultural competency,\u201d similar to what new applicants will face starting next year. This includes showing evidence of self-reflection on topics like \u201cGender Identity\u201d and \u201cSexual Orientation,\u201d as well as understanding biases related to race and other cultural categories.<\/p>\n<p>Some Christian universities may comply with these regulations while others plan not to but intend to do so discreetly until faced with penalties for noncompliance. Doug Seaton from the Upper Midwest Law Center noted that some institutions are hesitant about pursuing legal action until they encounter direct consequences for not adhering to these standards.<\/p>\n<p>Faithful members of major world religions often cannot ethically affirm non-heterosexual orientations or gender identities without compromising their beliefs\u2014a situation described as compelled speech which many argue is unconstitutional since it forces individuals into expressing views contrary to their convictions as a condition for employment within public education systems.<\/p>\n<p>The board responsible for implementing these changes has been appointed by Governor Walz over the past six years; thus he could potentially introduce similar policies nationwide if elected vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, recent educational reforms under Walz\u2019s administration have introduced curricula emphasizing concepts like racial capitalism and systemic oppression beginning at early grade levels while requiring educators\u2019 agreement with certain ideological frameworks associated with cultural Marxism. <\/p>\n<p>Critics argue that such measures contribute negatively toward educational outcomes; during Walz&#8217;s tenure student performance has declined significantly compared with previous years when Minnesota was among the top states academically. Research indicates no correlation between teacher certification processes and improved student achievement overall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":2331540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/walz-teacher.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[39385,6733,35136,5698,36113],"class_list":["post-2331539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-christian-teachers","tag-controversy","tag-education-policy","tag-minnesota","tag-tim-walz"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/walz-teacher.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331539","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\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}