Tim Walz admits Education Minnesota is a failure

When Tim Walz published this tweet, he intended to brag about Minnesota. Instead, he highlighted a failure in K-12 education. He wrote "Minnesota’s graduation rates just reached another record high. From day one, we set out to build a better future for our students. I’m proud that every student who receives that diploma is better equipped to build a future they feel excited about." This Alpha News article slams the door on Gov. Walz's bragging in a NY split-second.

The article opens by saying "Minnesota high school graduation rates hit a record high for the second straight year, even as test scores show little recovery from pandemic-era learning loss. New data from the Minnesota Department of Education shows the class of 2025 recorded a four-year graduation rate of 84.9%, the highest in recorded state history and an increase of 0.7% from the previous year’s record." That's nice happy talk but it won't eliminate this real-world reality:

But academic performance tells a different story. State assessment data shows reading and math scores have largely stagnated since testing resumed in 2022 (following a pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic), with little improvement through 2025.

A recent analysis of district-level data found fewer than one in eight Minnesota school districts have returned to pre-pandemic proficiency levels in either reading or math. Those districts account for less than 4% of students statewide and are primarily smaller systems.

That's worse than unacceptable. A friend of mine is a retired professor. I was talking with this friend this afternoon about the Alpha article. Later this afternoon, I received this information from my friend:
Based on the DIBELS early literacy screener of approximately 250,000 students across 43 states:
  • About half (49 percent) of kindergarteners who were far behind in reading caught up by third grade
  • Fewer than one-third (29 percent) of first graders did
  • Less than one in five (18 percent) of second graders caught up
  • Just 5 percent of third graders caught up within the year
"If your child is behind in the early grades, do not assume they will catch up," writes Chad Aldeman, founder of ReadNotGuess.com, a program to help parents teach their kids to read. "…[T]he odds that they will catch up decline every single year."

Simply, the earlier a child receives support in reading, the better his or her chances of catching up — waiting makes it much harder.

A little over 5 minutes into Walter Hudson's "Closing Argument", he talks about a federal tax benefit for taxpayers and schools like:

Gov. Tim Walz said no to making Minnesota ECCA-eligible. FYI- ECCA is the acronym for the Educational Choice for Children Act.

<>p>That means Gov. Walz said no to opting into a scholarship program that could help students in a variety of ways. This shows the world just how wedded the DFL is to Education Minnesota.The DFL isn't just wedded to EdMinn. They're owned by EdMinn. Let's end with a SLAPDOWN of Gov. Walz's unwarranted bragging: There's no other way to put this. Gov. Tim Walz's education and tax policies are GIGANTIC FAILURES!

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