Parents for Good Anoka-Hennepin

08/30/2026

What should the future of public education look like?

Parents for Good is bringing communities together to answer that question. We are planning public school community listening workshops in Circle Pines for the North Metro area, Maple Grove, St. Cloud, and Stillwater.

These workshops will give parents, educators, students, and community members an opportunity to share their experiences, imagine what is possible, and help shape the future of public education in Minnesota.

If you are interested in attending a workshop or bringing Parents for Good to your district, please send us a message!

08/28/2026

North Metro parents and community!

Join Parents for Good for a community workshop about the future of public education. Together, we’ll reflect on what we want to protect, what needs to change, and what we want to build so every student has access to strong, well-supported public schools. This will be an interactive conversation with small groups, big ideas, and plenty of space to imagine what education can look like if we make it.

Saturday, September 12th 10 AM- Noon

Registration link in comments!

School district communities invited:
Centennial
Spring Lake Park
Fridley
St. Anthony
Columbia Heights
Mounds View
White Bear Lake
Brooklyn Center
Other nearby districts!

08/27/2026

Sending your child to school for the first time is scary enough. Families should be able to trust that their children will be safe, supported, and given every opportunity to learn.
Instead, parents in Anoka-Hennepin and across Minnesota are being forced to ask harder questions.

Is the dysfunction created by the DOGE board members interfering with our children’s education?

Are our teachers getting the support and resources they need?

Are political fights getting in the way of the work our schools need to do?

The School Board is responsible for governing this district. That means providing stability, ensuring the district is meeting its obligations, and making sure educators have what they need to serve our students.

Our kids should not have to pay the price for dysfunction at the board table.

So what is the School Board going to do to address the serious challenges facing Anoka-Hennepin?

08/26/2026

There has been a lot of talk about accountability in our school district.

And I agree. Accountability matters.

But accountability cannot only be something we demand from teachers, administrators, district staff, or other people we disagree with. It has to apply to elected officials too.

School board members have a responsibility to ask questions, seek information, participate in the process, work through their concerns, and ultimately make decisions.

That is especially important here.
Teachers participated in the curriculum process. Administrators participated. Community members participated. School board members participated. There was an established process for reviewing the materials, raising concerns, and working through them.

So if a board member still has concerns, I think it is fair to ask a very simple question:
What did you do to resolve them?
Who did you ask to meet with? What teachers did you talk to? What administrators did you contact? What conversations did you initiate with other board members? What effort did you make to work through those concerns while the collaborative process was actually happening?
If that work happened, show us.

That is accountability.

It does take a whole board to govern a school district. And that means every board member has a responsibility to do their part.
What accountability cannot mean is declining to participate in the process while everyone else does the work, and then asking teachers and staff to go back and do it again afterward.

Our teachers already have enormous workloads. Our students need updated materials. Our families deserve a school board capable of making decisions.

There will always be disagreement. There should be discussion. Board members should ask hard questions.
But deliberation has to eventually lead to governing.

Continued delay does not automatically create more collaboration or a better decision. At some point, continued delay creates dysfunction, and our teachers and students are the ones being asked to absorb the consequences.

If we are going to talk about accountability, then accountability has to apply to everyone.

08/26/2026

Three members of the Anoka Hennepin School Board are refusing to approve new social studies textbooks, leaving teachers to carry an even heavier workload as they try to teach updated state standards without the updated resources to do it.
Our teachers are already being asked to do more with less. They should not also have to piece together curriculum because three board members are holding up textbooks that have been accepted by every other district in Minnesota.
Our students deserve better. Our teachers deserve better. Our community deserves better.
We stand with our teachers and are calling on the School Board to end this standoff, approve the curriculum, and order the books.

08/25/2026

Make our Anoka-Hennepin back-to-school dreams come true!

They need our support!

Link to lists in comments

Anoka-Hennepin teachers! email me at [email protected]. Please include your school and grade. a little blurb about how these materials would help your classroom. Or something similar I can put with the post.

Please email from your school email--

08/24/2026

What is the plan for Anoka-Hennepin?

We asked the district to agree to an expedited process so the legal question surrounding our petition could be resolved quickly. District leaders chose delay. We can only speculate about why, but the responsibility to explain what comes next now rests fully with them.

What is the plan when the state’s planned cuts to special education aid take effect?

What is the plan when federal resources are cut, as proposed in current budgets?

What is the plan for contract negotiations next year?

What is the plan if student behavior worsens because the supports that helped students succeed have been cut?

What is the plan to retain educators, protect programs, and provide every student with the support they need?

Fiscal responsibility means planning honestly for the costs and obligations ahead. Refusing additional resources while offering no sustainable plan is not fiscally responsible. Neither is making cuts year after year while the needs of students continue to grow.

Anoka-Hennepin families, staff, students, and community members deserve to know what the plan actually is.

08/24/2026

The Anoka-Hennepin School Board is proposing changes to Policy 604.4, the Respectful Learning Environment Policy.

To understand why that matters, we need to understand where this policy came from.

Between 2009 and 2011, nine Anoka-Hennepin students died by su***de. Several were LGBTQ+ or perceived to be LGBTQ+, and students reported a school climate marked by severe anti-LGBTQ+ bullying and harassment.

At the time, the district had what became known as the “neutrality policy.” It instructed staff to remain neutral when sexual orientation came up in the classroom. Students and advocates said the policy created confusion and made educators afraid to support LGBTQ+ students or respond effectively to harassment.

In 2012, after student lawsuits and federal civil rights investigations, the district repealed that policy and adopted Policy 604.4. The new policy requires contentious issues to be addressed appropriately and objectively while also requiring staff to affirm the dignity and self-worth of every student.

Now, the School Board is considering making approval of the new sixth-grade Minnesota Studies curriculum dependent on changing this policy to further define how teachers must navigate topics involving “varied perspectives.”

That should concern every member of our community.

Anoka-Hennepin has already lived through the devastating consequences of policies that created fear and uncertainty around supporting students. We cannot forget that history, and we cannot allow a policy rooted in student safety and dignity to be reopened without complete transparency and meaningful community involvement.

Before the Board changes Policy 604.4 or ties it to adopting a new textbook, the public deserves to see the exact proposed language and understand its consequences.

Our students’ dignity and safety cannot be treated as just another controversial perspective.



****Let us know if you plan to attend the board meeting link in comments

08/23/2026

Help teachers get ready for the school year!

Help make the dreams of Anoka-Hennepin teachers come true!

Anoka-Hennepin teachers! email me at [email protected]. Please include your school and grade. a little blurb about how these materials would help your classroom. Or something similar I can put with the post.

Please email from your school email.