Students Under Minnesota Governor And Harris Running Mate Tim Walz Are STRUGGLING

Daily Report August 10,2024

On the campaign trail, Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz loves to remind voters he’s a former public school teacher who attended Central High before returning to work in his St.Paul high school as an earth sciences instructor.

However, since Walz became governor in 2019, students’ comprehension statewide for reading and math has significantly decreased.

“He spent most of the last two years working to accommodate far-left demands in his party rather than working to address real education issues in our state,” Republican state Senator Carla Nelson, also a former teacher, told one news source.

“The Walz agenda has included burdensome mandates on schools … [that] have since led to budget shortfalls across the state and pulled teachers away from their students to comply with requirements,” Nelson added.

Catrin Wigfall, a policy fellow at the conservative Center of the American Experiment think tank, worries that under Walz’s leadership liberal ideology is taking precedence over combating some of the genuine problems with public schools.

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Walz has caught flak for his tight rein on keeping schools shut down to prevent the spreading of COVID-19, a decision that hit home after more than a decade as a high school social studies teacher and football coach at Mankato West High School.

“We’re seeing a shift in our education system, traditional focus on excellent and pragmatic instruction to one that is more ideologically and politically driven,” Wigfall said.