SAVE NORTH HIGH COALITION October 16 th 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

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TUESDAY, 4:30pm: Rally Against North High Closing @ School Board
Meeting

Tell the Minneapolis Board of Education
STOP THE CLOSING OF NORTH HIGH!

Rally at the Board of Education Meeting
Tuesday, Oct. 12
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
807 Broadway Ave NE, Mpls.
Then join us inside the Board meeting at 5:30 p.m. to voice our demands.

Facts of the situation:

Friday Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent, Bernadeia
Johnson, announced her plan to close down North High School.

Already the Minneapolis School Board has closed down more schools in North
Minneapolis than any other neighborhood, including five elementary and
middle schools since 2007.

The Board is set to vote on the proposed closure of North on November 9 th

The plan to close North is linked to the Board's recent decision to create
two new privately managed, non-union "Minneapolis College Prep" charter
schools.

Public schools are the bedrock of a community and this will all but
eliminate public education in North Minneapolis!

Therefore we call on the Minneapolis Board of Education to:
Vote down the proposal to close North High School.
Reverse the decision to open two "Minneapolis College Prep" charter high
schools.
Re-establish a "home zone" for North High to boost enrollment.
In partnership with parents, teachers, and students, develop an
aggressive, fully-funded plan to boost enrollment at North High.
Immediately open a dialogue with North teachers proposing an innovative
"self-managed" school model.

To get more involved, join us at the next meeting of the

SAVE NORTH HIGH COALITION
Saturday, October 16 th
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Zion Baptist Church
621 Elwood Ave N, Minneapolis, MN
CONTACTS and MORE INFO:
North High Alumni Association 612.715.2527Â
Friends of North Foundation marcusgo6@ gmail.com
Public Education Justice Alliance of MN (PEJAM) 952.465.5307
For updates: PEJAM.org

_____Text of leaflet being distributed to build for Tuesday protest_____

Stop the Privatization of Public Education!
Save North High School!

District Neglect of North Minneapolis

District officials point toward declining enrollment at North High and
district-wide as their reason for closing the school. Less than 270
students are now enrolled in North. But declining enrollment is a direct
result of District neglect and underfunding.

It is clear the District pursued an intentional policy of pushing North's
numbers down to make it more politically palatable to phase out public
education in the center of Minneapolis's largest African American
community. For example, every other high school in Minneapolis has a "home
zone," meaning that neighborhood students are automatically enrolled in
their neighborhood school unless they specifically choose another school.
This policy was taken away at North last year, denying the school
potentially hundreds of students.

The Board's planned neglect of North was also shown in their decision last
summer to sponsor two new privately managed, non-union "Minneapolis
College Prep" charter schools. The first is set to open in North next fall
with a 700 student capacity. But studies show privately managed,
unaccountable charters have increased segregation in Minnesota, while
failing to improve over-all test scores.

Privatizing Public Education
On a national scale, a powerful set of business and political interests
are pushing a profit-driven policy of privatization. Corporate funding has
poured into privately managed charters, many of them explicitly for-profit
schools, as well as political lobbying to ensure government support for
expanding charters at the expense of public schools.

Across the country urban, low-income, and predominantly Black and Latino
communities have faced the most sweeping school closures and
privatization. Low test scores, which say more about a student's zip-code
than about their intelligence, are used as an excuse replace public
schools with charters. But every serious study shows charters' test scores
average no better than public schools despite their ability to cherry-pick
the best performing students.

Charters failure to perform is linked to rapid teacher burnout and
turnover. Charters are non-union, meaning they typically overwork teachers
and don't pay living wages or benefits. The best teachers refuse to work
under these conditions. Privatization and charters are no solution to the
problems facing North schools. Real answers can only come by expanding the
resources and democratic community control of our public schools.

Contact the SAVE NORTH HIGH COALITION
North High Alumni Association 612.715.2527Â
Friends of North Foundation [e-mail]
Public Education Justice Alliance of MN 952.465.5307
For updates check PEJAM.org

hog pile are unrelenting sociopaths, wrecking havoc wherever they go.
Their puppets are beneath contempt. -ed