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Candidate Profile Published Tuesday, November 07 08:33:27 AM |
| Name: | Doug Mann |
Other candidates in this race: |
| Office: | Minneapolis School board member | |
| Incumbent: | No | |
| City of residence: | Minneapolis | |
| Website: | http://dougmannlnc.com/id21.html | |
| Age: | 49 | |
| Background: | Licensed practical nurse/charge nurse, trained legal nurse consultant, news reporter; speak French, Spanish; author of “Flight from Equality” and “The Coleman Report” (University of Washington website); have served on Minneapolis Parents Union board of directors, NAACP Education Advocacy committees (Minneapolis branch, Minnesota state conference). | |
| Endorsements: | Ron Edwards, former Urban League Brd. chair; Leola Seals, former president, Mpls. NAACP branch; Barbara Koch Smith, former Mpls. Parents Union co-chair; Michael Cavlan, MN Green Party U.S. Senate candidate; Danene Provencher, Green Party lt. governor candidate; Pamela Taylor, 1999 school brd. cand., Prog. MN endorsed; Lorraine Smaller, former dir., Hands On Alternative School; Alfred Flowers, community rep., Police/Civilian Review Ctte.; Travis Lee, editor & Mpls. NAACP branch exec. ctte.; Jerry Moore, vice chair, Jordan Area Community Council. | |
| Most important issue: | The “racial learning gap” in Minneapolis public schools is a reflection of differences in access to high-quality educational programs. For example, students of color are heavily concentrated in school programs with a high concentration of low seniority teachers and high teacher turnover rates. The Minneapolis public school system is not unique in this respect. Nationwide, about two-thirds of public school teachers with less than three years of experience are teaching in schools where African-American and Latino students are over-represented. About 40 percent of new teachers leave the profession within three years, about 50 percent within five years. |