The outlook for Minneapolis Public Schools
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The Minneapolis School Board will be looking for a new superintendent. That's after Bernadeia Johnson announced this week that she's leaving the district's top job at the end of January.
Johnson leaves at a time when the district faces tough challenges: eliminating the achievement gap between white students and students of color, erasing racial inequities in suspensions and better engaging parents in their children's education.
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(A Minneapolis School Board plan) seeks to improve math and reading proficiency rates for students of color by 8 percentage points annually. The aim is to make up a nearly 50 percentage point gap compared to white students by the year 2020.
The plan also calls on the district to erase the racial disparity in suspensions between white students and students of color.
Candidate interviews may not start until next fall, with a new superintendent starting the job in 2016.
Are you a Minneapolis school parent, student, or employee? What will be Johnson's legacy? What do you think Minneapolis can do to improve? Leave your stories and comments below.
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