Policy Reports: Education
Policy Reports
2010’s
- Sean Kershaw Testimony about Prosperity (Dream) Act Letter to Senate Finance Committee (April 2013)
- Prosperity (Dream) Act Letter to Legislators (April 2013)
- Summary of Higher Education Completion Conversations (May 2012)
- Teens Think Deeply About Student Achievement (May 2012)
- Overselling College, Underselling Learning: Report of Phase 1 of Higher Education Reform Project (December 2011)
- Report summary
- Letter Supporting Minnesota’s Race to the Top Application (October 2011)
- Letter: Alternative Teacher Certification (April 2010)
- Minnesota Educators’ and Students’ Insights on Assessment and Accountability(February 2010)
2000’s
- Charter School Policy Review Group Final Report (August 2009)
- Educating Minnesota’s Immigrant Students, Phase II: Solutions (February 2009)
- Educating Minnesota’s Immigrant Students, Phase I: Challenges and Opportunities (July 2007)
- Creating Minnesota’s Plan for Career Development in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (March 2006)
This is not a Citizens League report, but the report of a project convened by the Citizens League - A New Vision for Saint Paul Schools: Preparing All Students for Success in Higher Education (May 2005)
- Trouble on the Horizon: Growing Demands and Competition, Limited Resources, and Changing Demographics in Higher Education (November 2004)
- A Failing Grade for School Completion: We Must Increase School Completion in Minneapolis and Saint Paul
(August 2001)
1990’s
- Report overview
- A Competitive Place in the Quality Race: Putting the University of Minnesota in the Nation’s Top Five Public Research Universities (January 1998)
- Report overview
- Statement on the Education Diversity Rule (November 1997)
- Straight A’s for Minnesota Schools: Achievement, Assessment, Accountability(February 1997)
- Letter to Board of Regents: Promote Access and Academic Success of Students of Color and Low-Income Students (April 1996)
1980’s
- Letter to the Legislature — Financing at the U of M (April 1989)
- Building Tomorrow by Helping Today’s Kids (December 1988)
- Chartered Schools = Choices for Educators + Quality for All Students (November 1988)
- Cooperatively Managed Schools: Teachers as Partners (August 1987)
- Statement: Commitment to Focus at the University (July 1987)
- Commitment to Focus: More of Both (August 1986)
- Statement on Future of Post Secondary Education in Minnesota (July 1983)
- Memo to the Community Information Committee on Implementation of the CL Education Report(January 1983)
- Rebuilding Education to Make It Work (May 1982)
- Statement: Opposing Abolition of the Coordinating Function in Post-Secondary Education (April 1981)
1970’s
- Linking a Commitment to Desegregation with Choices for Quality Schools(December 1979)
- Declining Enrollments in Higher Education: Let Consumers Make the Choices(February 1977)
- Matching Pupils, Teachers, Buildings, and Budgets (August 1974)
- Accountability in Schools: Not a Threat but a Real Hope (November 1972)
- Statement: Voter Response to the St. Paul Schools Bond Proposal (March 1972)
- An Agenda for Re-Building St. Paul Schools in a Time of Educational Change(October 1971)
- An Urban College: New Kinds of “Students” on a New Kind of “Campus” (April 1971)
- Resolving Teacher-School Board Disputes: A Proposal for an Improved Process of Collective Bargaining in Education (March 1971)
- Statement to the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Commission(February 1970)
1960’s
- Stretching the School Salary Dollar: How a Redefinition of “the Teacher’s Job” Can Ease Problems for Minnesota Teachers and Taxpayers (July 1969)
- Statement: Schumann Bill for Community Colleges (March 1969)
- Statement: Proposed Millage Increase for Minneapolis School Board (September 1968)
- Letter: Vocational Techn (February 1968)
- Policy on the Creation of Additional Special Districts in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (January 1968)
- Statement: Creation of Additional Special Districts in the Metropolitan Area(November 1967)
- Community Colleges for the Twin Cities Area (June 1967)
- 1967 Minneapolis School Financial Needs (July 1966)
- Location of the New South High School, Minneapolis Public Schools (November 1965)
- Future of Central High School, Minneapolis Public Schools (September 1965)
- Minneapolis Public Schools Voter Referendum on a 3.4 Mill Increase (October 1964)
- Minneapolis Public Schools 5-Mill Increase (June 1964)
- Minneapolis Public Schools Construction Program (January 1964)
- Minneapolis Public School System Building Needs (October 1963)
- Review of the Michigan State University Report on Minneapolis Public School Needs (October 1963)
- Minneapolis Board of Education Special School District Act (March 1963)
- Minneapolis Board of Education Proposed 6-Mill Increase (September 1962)
- Minneapolis Public Schools $5 Million School Bond Issue (August 1962)
- Minneapolis Public Schools Proposed 6-Mill Increase Levy (July 1962)
- Minneapolis Public Schools 5-Year Construction Plan (May 1962)
- Minneapolis Board of Education Proposed Mill Increase (July 1961)
- Referendum on Minneapolis School Board’s Taxing Increase of Five Mills (October 1960)
- Survey of Problems of Educating High Ability Students in Our Senior High Schools (March 1960)
- Borrowing Policy for the City and School District of Minneapolis (February 1960)
1950’s
- Position on Creating a Minneapolis Independent School District (May 1959)
- City of Minneapolis Act to Create a Modified ISD (January 1959)
- Proposal to Amend Chaper 122, Laws of Minnesota, Dealing with a Modified Independent School District (October 1958)
- Conversion of Minneapolis Public Schools Into An Independent School District (June 1958)
- Proposed Amendment 15 to Minneapolis City Charter (March 1957)
- County Superintendent of Schools: Particular Reference to Hennepin County(November 1956)
- Minneapolis Board of Education: Authorization of a 6-Mill Increase in Taxing Power (August 1956)
- Proposed Increase of 6 Mills for Minneapolis Board of Education (September 1954)