{"id":887,"date":"2011-12-23T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T15:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emidfamilies.org\/?p=887"},"modified":"2011-12-23T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T15:55:47","slug":"integration-revenue-task-force-seeks-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/archives\/887","title":{"rendered":"Integration revenue task force seeks testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/education.state.mn.us\/MDE\/Welcome\/AdvBCT\/IntegRevReplaceTaskForce\/index.html\">Integration Revenue Replacement Advisory Task Force<\/a> is seeking public testimony at its 1\/10 meeting. They have set aside time at this all-day session to hear from the public, giving each person 2-3 minutes. Please consider requesting a slot to share your thoughts with the task force, even if you don&#8217;t get called to testify, your 300-450 word written testimony will be shared with the task force.<\/p>\n<p>So far the task force has heard from administrators from various school districts around the state, <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/archives\/885\">including our own Jerry Robicheau and Christina Gillette<\/a>, and from lawyers and social scientists arguing the effectiveness of integration efforts. Recent stories in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/135974858.html\">Star Tribune<\/a> (which includes a picture from Crosswinds!) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/learningcurve\/2011\/12\/21\/33989\/task_force_on_school_integration_policy_hears_sharp_debate?utm_source=MinnPost-RSS&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+minnpost+(MinnPost.com+-+Minnesota+News+and+Analysis)#131-33989\">MnPost<\/a> provide some insight into this testimony and the dynamics of the task force. Most remarkable, given the task force&#8217;s name, is that they have not yet ruled out a continuation of integration funding of some sort.<\/p>\n<p>The task force asks these questions of the public, and your testimony can help answer them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What meaningful links are there, if any, between racially integrated schools and students\u2019 educational outcomes?<\/li>\n<li>What educational opportunities are at risk, if any, for all students (not just poor and minority) if we make changes to integration revenue in Minnesota?<\/li>\n<li>Historically, considering how districts responded to Minnesota\u2019s school desegregation rule, what worked and what didn\u2019t work (educational structures, strategies, and programs)? Why?<\/li>\n<li>What are the current measures of success in a given district? Are they data-driven? What should the measures of success be?<\/li>\n<li>How should Minnesota allocate the dollars that, in the current biennium, are going to integration revenue?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The task force needs to hear from you by the end of next week, 12\/30, if you wish to testify. Please review their <a href=\"http:\/\/education.state.mn.us\/mdeprod\/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&amp;dDocName=040265&amp;RevisionSelectionMethod=latestReleased&amp;Rendition=primary\">Request to Speak form (PDF)<\/a>. Other documents from the task force can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/education.state.mn.us\/MDE\/Welcome\/AdvBCT\/IntegRevReplaceTaskForce\/index.html\">Integration Revenue Replacement Advisory Task Force website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota&#8217;s Integration Revenue Replacement Advisory Task Force is seeking public testimony at its 1\/10 meeting. They have set aside time at this all-day session to hear from the public, giving each person 2-3 minutes. Please consider requesting a slot to share your thoughts with the task force, even if you don&#8217;t get called to testify, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-integration","category-irratf","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}