{"id":1245,"date":"2012-02-25T18:53:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emidfamilies.org\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2012-02-25T18:53:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:53:46","slug":"pioneer-press-overhaul-of-minnesota-school-integration-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/archives\/1245","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Press: Overhaul of Minnesota school integration in limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mila Koumpilova writes in the Pioneer Press today: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/ci_20039925\">Overhaul of Minnesota school integration in limbo<\/a>.&#8221; In the story she notes that the Legislature and the Minnesota Department of Education differ about who should take the next step with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/irratf\">integration task force<\/a> recommendations. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, chairman of the House Education Finance Committee, said Friday that he expects the Education Department to flesh out a proposal legislators can act on this session. But the department says the ball is in the Legislature&#8217;s court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Koumpilova also exposes some of the tensions emerging from members of the task force.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Kersten said,] &#8220;If the Legislature does nothing, the integration program goes away, and I think that might be the best outcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kersten added that her Center for the American Experiment report, a year in the making, is completely independent of her service on the task force. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Myron Orfield, a fellow task force member, said Kersten&#8217;s views set her apart on the task force. &#8220;Everyone but her felt there were benefits to integration,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is odd that the Legislature has already had Kersten testify about her own views but has failed to hold any sort of hearing about the actual task force recommendations. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You have something that&#8217;s so rare in this day and age &#8211; a bipartisan recommendation with more than a supermajority,&#8221; said committee co-chairman Scott Thomas, an equity coordinator in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan school district. &#8220;The response has been absolute silence.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mila Koumpilova shines light on the Legislature&#8217;s readiness to hear Kersten but not the task force report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24,26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-integration","category-irratf","category-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}