Policy Reports by Subject: Education

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All the reports of Citizens League study committees -- as well as many additional policy statements, tax studies, and other documents -- are available in this online library. The reports are in pdf format with searchable text.

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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 (January 2013)
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)

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Dissent

Review: Chartered Schools (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)
- 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)

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