According to WND, Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat long aligned with the party’s progressive wing and a failed running mate to Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, is now under fire for education rules that critics say force teachers to embrace a radical worldview. His administration has already been rocked by an estimated multibillion-dollar social services fraud scandal centered in the state’s Somali community, a debacle so serious he dropped his re-election bid as investigations, arrests, and convictions mounted.
The latest controversy stems from Minnesota’s “Standards of Effective Practice,” which dictate that teachers and would-be teachers must demonstrate how they have evaluated “how their biases, perceptions and academic training may affect their teaching practice and perpetuate oppressive systems.” Under these standards, such self-criticism is labeled a “professional responsibility,” and educators are ordered to use “tools to mitigate their own behavior to disrupt oppressive systems.”
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State Sen. Mark Koran, a Republican, has denounced these requirements as an ideological loyalty test masquerading as professional development. He argued that the rules effectively compel teachers to accept a permanent role in a Marxist-style hierarchy, stating that they amount to a “vow of being an oppressor,” a scheme he called “just crazy” and “horribly disgusting.”
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Walz has long been viewed by conservatives as an “extreme leftist,” particularly for his hostility toward federal officers enforcing the nation’s border and immigration laws. Koran charged that “He’s tied to the radicals, he’s tied to the teachers’ unions, all the public unions of a really wild, radical agenda.”
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According to Koran, Minnesota’s revamped teacher licensing standards, adopted “under the guise of racism,” require educators to weave into their instruction a constant focus on “the understanding of the ‘oppressed’ and the ‘oppressor’ environment.” “It’s horribly disgusting,” he told Fox. “It is racism. It is instilling the systemic racism that doesn’t exist today.”
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Another mandated “professional responsibility,” Koran noted, is that teachers must affirm “how prejudice, discrimination, and racism operate at the interpersonal, intergroup and institutional leves” and accept that Minnesota policy and practice “have and continue to create inequitable opportunities, experiences, and outcomes for learners.” The state’s ideological framework then layers on the full menu of identity categories, listing “race, class, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, language, socioeconomic status, or country of origin” as defining labels.
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Teachers are further required to instruct students on how “racism and micro and macro aggressions” allegedly shape learning outcomes. “It’s an offensive statement to assume that somebody’s an oppressor based on who’s the disfavored race of the week,” Koran said. “We just can’t have that.”
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For Koran and many parents, the deeper crisis is not a lack of political indoctrination but a collapse in basic academic performance under progressive leadership. “Today in Minnesota, half of our children can’t read or write or do math at grade level, 50 percent, and they have high school diplomas. Minnesota is bragging about the graduation rates; we hit the highest ever, but fewer people have an education and are set up with a foundation to be successful.”
