Joe Nathan / 2019 Columns / Anoka-Hennepin School District, Burnsville-Eagan-Savage District, Cambridge-Isanti Public Schools, District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools University of North Carolina Greensboro, Eden Prairie Schools, Edina Public Schools, Farming Area Public Schools, Forest Lake Area Schools, Fridley Public Schools, homeless families, homeless youth, Hopkins Public Schools, Independent School District 728, Isis Watford, Lakeville Public Schools, Little Falls Community Schools, Milaca Public Schools, Minnesota Department of Human Services, Minnetonka Public Schools, Monica Nilsson, Monticello Public School District, North Branch Area Public Schools, Northwest Passage High School, Osseo Public Schools, Paladin Career and Technical High School, Princeton Public Schools, Richfeild Public Schools, Rochester Public Schools, St. Louis Park Public Schools, Stillwater Area Public Schools, Tom Balsley, Unsheltered Design Team, Waconia Public SchoolsCaledonia Area Public Schools, Wayzata Public Schools, Wilder Foundation / 0 Comments
This column originally appeared in several APG of East Central Minnesota newspapers. Hearing and helping Minnesota’s homeless youth and families We have to do better with the thousands of young Minnesotans like Isis Watford. Through no fault of her own, she spent four years being homeless. Recently, at age 20, Watford found a place to […]
Joe Nathan / 2019 Columns, Featured Content / Andrea Northam, Anoka Technical College, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Brooklyn Park, Central Lakes College, Deanna Sheely, Dennis Frandsen scholarship program, Doug Anderson, Eden Prairie, Hennepin Technical College, Janelle Koepke, Jessie Perrine, Joe Mulford, Kate Wallace, LeAnna Wangerin, Marie Swaja, Mina Blyly-Strauss, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Nairobi Abrams, Nate Stoltman, Pine Technical and Community College, Riverland Community College, Rochester Community and Technical College, St. Cloud Technical and Community College, Winona State University, Workforce Development grants / 0 Comments
The following column appeared during July, 2019 in several APG of East Central Minnesota newspapers. Amazing offer for first-time, two-year college students Minnesota has an amazing opportunity for students who enter one of its two-year public colleges this fall for the first time: If you study any of six “high job demand” areas, the […]
Joe Nathan / 2019 Columns, Charter schools, Dual HS/College Credit, PSEO / Aaliyah Hodge, Bemidji, Breanna Kissel, Fardowso Abdi, Humphrey School, Ivan Sand Community High School, Paladin Career and Technical High School, People for PSEO, post secondary enrollment options, PSEO, Red Lake Indian Reservation, Robert Jackson, St. Louis Park High School, University of Minnesota, Voyageurs Expeditionary School, Zeke Jackson / 1 Comment
Students see value of alternative, charter and PSEO options Some of the most insightful, helpful reading I’ve done in the last year has come from essays written by Minnesota high school students like Breanna Kissel, Zeke Jackson and Fardowso Abdi. They explain far better than I can why providing public school choice and dual-credit […]
Joe Nathan / 2019 Columns, Featured Content / Black like me, David Ellis, John Howard Griffin, Keep Your Eyes on the Prize, People for PSEO, post secondary enrollment options, Rosa Parks, service learning / 2 Comments
“Keep Your Eyes on the Prize” Presentation by Joe Nathan at National Charter Schools Conference, July 3, 2019. Nathan was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Charter Public School Alliance. Here’s a copy of his remarks to conference participants. “Walk up” music “Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on” (Southern civil […]
Joe Nathan / 2019 Columns / Anoka-Hennepin Schools, Caledonia Area Schools, Craig Ihrek, Deb Henton, Eugene Piccolo, Forest Lake Area Schools, Gretchen Godfrey, Hopkins, Little Falls Community Schools, Mary Cathryn Ricker, Minnesota Association of Charter Schools, Minnesota Department of Education, North Branch Area Schools, PACER Center, Stephen Jones, Steve Massey, students with disabilities, Tom Melcher / 4 Comments
The following column appeared during June, 2019 in several APG of East Central newspapers including the Star News and Morrison County Record. Progress, next steps for students with disabilities Suspicious, disappointed, pleased and grateful: Those were some of the reactions educators and parents shared to the 2019 Minnesota Legislature’s efforts to help students who have […]