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The school year has started across Minnesota with hopes and prayers for about 170 instructional days without drama, trauma or another once-in-a-career event. Educating Minnesota’s students is stressful enough. Educators don’t need to carry more.
This was the most difficult year for Minnesota educators since the pandemic. It showed what educators are made of and renewed my faith that, collectively, we have what it takes to overcome the challenges facing our profession. We began in the shadow of violence. In June, a gunman dressed as a police officer assassinated House…
We’re making progress on the health insurance affordability crisis, even as more stories of educators wronged by a broken system keep coming in every day.
Federal agents equipped for war are roaming the streets of the Twin Cities as I write this, and many educators and students are staying home for fear of abductions and violence.
When 200 parents and supporters of public schools show up on 24 hours notice to protest the influence of big outside money on school board elections, you know Minnesotans are fed up with the attacks on educators and public schools. That’s just what happened in late October outside the Coon Rapids Civics Center while a…
I’ve never met an educator who wanted to simultaneously welcome back students in September and start working toward a November election, but that’s where we are in dozens of Minnesota school districts. Voters in about 30 school districts will elect school board members this fall. Together, these districts educate more than 217,000 students—one in four…
Education Minnesota President Monica Byron’s message.
Nevertheless, her union persisted…That’s how I would like future educators and unionists to look back on my time as president of Education Minnesota, a job I will step away from at the end of June.
 A hundred minutes was a long time to listen President Donald Trump when he was spreading lies about public schools, especially when those lies will be used to harm the educators and students Education Minnesota stands for. I sat in the gallery of the great hall of the U.S. House of Representatives as the…
Donald Trump’s election and hostility to public education will pose new challenges to Minnesota educators in 2025. The most dangerous of them may be his support for school voucher programs that divert taxpayer money from public education to private and religious schools.
