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They both have nice teeth.
Beyond that, minnreformer.com has published:
Demuth proposes teacher performance pay, wants changes to free school meals
Education is the word we use for preparing the next generation for the real world without their committing suicide the senior year of high school. Something like that. The private prep schools to of course train leaders, the public schools to train followers, mortgage holder studen debt facing individuals.
Generating a citizenship spirit is a thought. Wtf that means being a mystery but we know being "woke" is wrong and we can expect demuth or niska to remind us of that if the more strident Republicans fail the task, they remain there wanting our vote and ready to backstop any doub of "woke" whatever that means..
Minnreformer publishes in part-
Demuth, the GOP nominee for governor, cited her decade of experience on her local school board — prior to serving in the Legislature — as a needed qualification for getting student achievement back on track.
“We’ll be focusing on the fundamentals of reading, math and science. We want to make sure that we are spending wisely with fewer mandates. We’ll provide safety for all students in all schools,” Demuth said at a Capitol press conference Thursday.
Demuth is facing Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar in November. Klobuchar has pledged to raise student achievement, ban cell phones in classrooms and work with school districts to limit screen-time. Demuth said she would encourage school districts to limit screen-time, rather than a blanket ban.
Demuth said the state will also implement teacher performance pay, because “better teachers deserve better pay.” She was unable to say what metric would be used for teachers to receive additional pay. Some states and districts use student academic performance or classroom observations to determine a teacher’s pay, in part.
Minnesota already has a teacher performance-linked payment program, and over 100 school districts participate in it. It’s unclear how Demuth’s proposal is different from what the state already offers.
Education Minnesota, the state’s teachers union, has endorsed Klobuchar for governor.
First paragraph a decade of experience is distinct from a decade of getting it right. The two might be congruent, but they might be a distance apart, depending upon much that is subjective.
What might objective getting it right look like? That's a thinking trap if you are fair minded, since goals can be configured to aims in a tortured way, or even dishonestly characterized.
Then, teacher "performance pay" perks. That is a thicket of belief that standardized testing and class average performance means something independent from some people are smart and some dumb and in private schools you can harvest the low hanging fruit, based on a pseudo-genetic argument the wealthy parents are smarter, and kids they have will be, so private school them, and public school teachers take what they get, skill and insight capability varying. There are religious schools and Niska and his voucher liking is grounded in that, he went to one, his kids go to the same one, and his spouse Jen at one point chaired the managing board of that one. It seems to be a shaping experience, that kind of private school where you pay for it for your children, or you jigger up vouchers so that the public pays for private schooling. Back to Minnreformer -
Asked whether she would continue Minnesota’s free school meals program passed during the Democratic-Farmer-Labor trifecta in 2023, Demuth said children from wealthy families shouldn’t be eligible.
“When a family is making six- and sometimes seven-figure incomes, their kids do not need free meals,” Demuth said.
Means testing where six figures these inflationary Trump days is not that big a thing as it was - and you do means testing and what, some kids get meal vouchers, some don't and you have administering costs.
Demuth said as governor she would opt into more federal education funding, like the new $1,700 tax credit for taxpayers who donate to scholarship-granting organizations. The tax credit was passed last year in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and it allows nonprofits to use the money donated to offer scholarships for public or private school programs.
Crabgrass did search = big beautiful bill $1700 tax credit is just vouchers tarted up
Surprisingly, my doing that search - biased in its phrasing - and under my generic profiling got top three hits
Democrats try to repeal tax credit from 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Private schools have benefited from vouchers. Now public schools aim to cash in
10 things to know about Trump’s new school voucher program
Under my profiling alone, search = $1700 tax credit voucher
returned top three
The $1,700 Loophole: How the New Federal School Choice Tax Credit Lowers Private Tuition Bills Fact Sheet: President Trump Delivers Affordable School Choice Options
Through Education Freedom Tax Credit (a federal executive branch item)
School Vouchers Explained: What the New Federal Program MeansCrabgrass views any film-flam or direct rerouting of tax money (or provision of biased tax credits) which down funds public education as a burden on some to finance arbitrary depletion of public education money to elsewhere and hence a bad thing. Clearly, opinions vary. Minnreformer continues -
The Minnesota Department of Education has said the tax credit, which is a circuitous form of a private school voucher program long championed by conservative activists, would disproportionately help wealthier Minnesotans.
Demuth’s education plan also says she will remove “‘woke’ standards adopted by the Walz status quo.” Asked what standards the plan refers to, Demuth said her administration will do an evaluation of the state’s education mandates and remove standards that “are pushing our kids away from the basics of reading, math and science.”
Is that side stepping the question, or what?
Demuth’s plan also includes changes to the state’s teacher licensing board to ensure the board is working to “prepare the next generation of workers and not the next generation of activists,” referring to conservative assertions that the schools are being used to indoctrinate Minnesota students in progressive politics.
That's just pure horseshitting and telling something, by her characterization.
So, the opening image, Demuth and Niska together, fits their congruent voucher outlook. Crabgrass has no knowledge of Demuth's offspring, if any, and how their schooling was, but she had a decade on the school board, so public schooling is most likely. Readers can search out the question. Niska, a private religion based school for the kids and spouse a part of running the adventure.
https://educationminnesota.org/ is worthwhile. Professionals with experience - and the idea you'd not want brain surgery done by auto mechanics, nor auto repair by cardiologists - matters.
UPDATE: Demuth wants safe schools. Does she think Klobucher wants unsafe ones? That's not worth even saying, as a given of politics. Safe home, safe streets, safe schools, safe supermarkets, safe sex.
Why say it into the item more than once?? Safe schools can be via National Guard permanant 1:1 guardsman to student ratios, or by some lesser, ideally specified, measures.
As to specificity, Demuth is specific about the $1700 voucher plan, and little else. D-
Not that Klobuchar would score highter on any realistic specificity scoring range.
