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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Minnesota's Special Education Cuts: What the Blue Ribbon Commission Was Asked to Do, and What the Default Cut Means The Commission’s unanimous recommendation was that the legislature should repeal those cuts. jvonkorff.substack.com/p/minnesotas...

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Minnesota's Special Education Cuts: What the Blue Ribbon Commission Was Asked to Do, and What the Default Cut Means

Minnesota continues to violate the constitutional education clause

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reporting on underfunding is really important: "you're the man." I think we need reporting on which districts are using their money for effective practices. Not by indirection: not by comparing their expected results, but by analyzing what they are actually doing. Chenoweth started that dialog...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In Minnesota, districts ask for money they ask for enough money without any commitment to translate that money into effective practices and without accountability. The argument for more money would be stronger, if combined with concrete plans to use that money to implement effective practices.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It should be crystal clear that our failure to provide adequate outcomes to students of color, lower income students and English language learners derives from multiple failures. In adequate funding, systemic lack of effective practices and professional development, and supportive accountability

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order --Stop using google maps when you can until Google stops catering to Trump's fantasy names. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order

Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting ‘we’re not changing it’

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey Google: If Donald Trump renamed Lake Superior Trump Lake, would you change the map for his vanity project. If Donald Trump renamed the Mississippi river the Melania river, would you change the map. Where is the limit? If he renamed Iceland, New America, would you do that too?

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I enjoy your work, and your passion, which I share, but sometimes I wonder whether you can catch more flies with honey. =)

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is great work. In the meantime, neither political party is doing anything meaningful to provide the students who need public education the most, an adequate education. A seven year long effort is seeking to "integrate" MSP failing schools, but nothing to reform the education they provide.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Testimony of an Minnesota principal with years of experience working with students with higher educational needs describing why more resources are required. substack.com/@jvonkorff/n...

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A Principal Describes What New Money can Accomplish with Students who Come to School Behind

Thinking big can accomplish big things

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I read the Atchison and Damon article carefully. It seems that they identified inefficiency by comparing how the schools were doing compared to the results expected using a cost model. I'd be more persuaded if they also examined what more successful schools were doing to the less successful.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Cruz-Guzman Series, Part 5: Beginning With the End in Mind — What an Adequate Education Actually Requires Integration alone will not deliver an adequate education. Effective practices research demonstrates that broad systemic reforms are are required. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/08/part...

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JvonKorff on Education

Part 5 of a series Cruz-Guzman Series, Part 5: Beginning With the End in Mind — What an Adequate Education Actually Requ...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yes. EBF yields inadequate funding estimates. Perhaps this reflects errors in identifying what is necessary to deliver adequacy. Or it reflects fear that states won't purchase services if the costs are too high. Nonetheless, cost models should show what adequate funding can buy.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm becoming convinced that evidence based funding ala Odden and education cost models should be merged as two windows on the same issue. Arguably EBF keeps total costs lower to justify consulting contracts. Perhaps a weakness for costing models is that they don't connect to what they will buy.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thanks. I've downloaded both articles; they are really helpful. What does your research say about the extent to which districts in progressive states actually use the additional funding for the most effective practices. Are there states that accountably incentivize expansion of these practices.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In 2025, you presented to a statewide task force convened by the MDE that was extremely helpful. We also looked at the Century Foundation's nationwide district by district estimate of adequacy. Is there a way of connecting the results of the model to the effective practices that funding can buy.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Cruz Guzman Court should demand that each party delivers a comprehensive reform plant to deliver an adequate education. It is not enough to argue what won't work: experts should advise the Court on what will work, and how much it costs. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/08/cruz...

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Cruz-Guzman Experts Should Advise the Court on How to Reform Minnesota's Educaton System to Deliver a Constitutionally Adequate Education to Each Student

Part 4 of a series Cruz-Guzman and the Malatinszky Report, Part 4: Cruz-Guzman Experts Have a Duty to Inform the Court W...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In Skeen v State, Minnesota's Supreme Court rejected a claim that the Constitution requires equal funding. The Court held, instead, that the Constitution requires districts to receive at a minimum enough funding to afford each student an adequate education that meets all state standards.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Defendants in the Cruz-Guzman litigation assert that integration alone will not provide the adequate education that the Minnesota constitution requires. This post shows that the Complaint seeks broad comprehensive relief, including integration. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/08/part...

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JvonKorff on Education

Part 3 of a series Cruz-Guzman and the Malatinszky Report, Part 3: The Cruz-Guzman Defendants Ignore the Broad Scope of ...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Econometric statistics misused in an attempt to defeat Cruz-Guzman's effort to enforce Minnesota's constitutional right to an adequate education for students of color and low income students. Part 1. A critique of Aron Malatinszky's opinion in that case jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/07/mala...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Shouldn't teachers and schools be using the data from the classroom daily to determine when the student needs support.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Minnesota's K-12 accountability system rests primarily on school choice and competition. Neither mechanism has worked as intended.To deliver an adequate education meeting state standards Minnesota must adopt a new robust supportive accountability system. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/05/minn...

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Minnesota' K-12 Education System Needs Robust Accountability

The Accountability Gap | jvonkorff.com Post 6 of 8 • Minnesota Education Finance Reform This is the sixth post in an eight-pa...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Some states use Evidence Based Funding (EBF) to correlate K-12 funding to the cost of delivering effective educational practices. Minnesota's dysfunctional K–12 education finance does not. Eight part series on MDE Task Force on Education Finance. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/05/mone...

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Money is Necessary, But Not Sufficient: Evidence Based Practices

Evidence-Based Practices: Money Is Necessary But Not Sufficient | jvonkorff.com Post 5 of 8 • Minnesota Education Finance Reform ...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Minnesota must comply with the Skeen decision. The first step is to determine the full cost of providing students with an adequate education that meets all state standards. Part 3 of an 8 part series on Minnesota's broken school finance system. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

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The Case for Adequate Cost-Based Education Funding in Minnesota

The Case for Adequate, Cost-Based Funding | jvonkorff.com Post 3 of 8 • Minnesota Education Finance Reform This is the third ...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This is the second post in an eight-part series on reforming Minnesota's K–12 education finance system. The series is based on the Research Appendix drafted for the 2025 MDE Task Force on Education Finance jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/05/twen...

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Twenty Years of Unheeded Warnings: Leaving Children Behind

Twenty Years of Unheeded Warnings | jvonkorff.com Post 2 of 8 • Minnesota Education Finance Reform This is the second post in...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Minnesota's Education Finance System Must Be Reformed: Part 1 of an 8 Part Series drawing from research conducted on behalf of the Minnesota Department of Education 2025 K-12 Education Finance Task Force. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/05/minn...

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Minnesota's Education Funding Must be Reformed: A Series

Minnesota's Education Funding Crisis: A Series | jvonkorff.com Series Introduction • Post 1 of 8 Minnesota Is Failing Its Most V...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Democrats in House and Senate should introduce a resolution to approve and authorize Trump's executive order funding the Transportation Security Agency.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

If, as Trump argues, the US doesn't need oil imports, because we are energy independent, then why are Americans paying for oil at prices that reflect extreme scarcity. Isn't that simply war profiteering. And, why then aren't Democrats demanding that Americans that priced gauging cease.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Republicans claim that masks must be worn to prevent doxxing of ICE officers. Why not pass a federal law against doxxing officers in return for mask removal. We're headed for possible catastrophic accident in air traffic, which will certainly harm only democrats.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Jvonkorff on Education's sSecond in a series on Baker and Di Carlo's excellent new book explaining why it is important to pair adequate funding with integration. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/03/less...

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Lessons from Baker and DiCarlo: Combine Adequate Funding with Integration

JVonkorff on Education has been advocating that to deliver a constitutionally required adequate education to students of color, lower income...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Great military leaders do not celebrate death; they do not brag about the number of people they have killed. Doing so is inhuman and inhumane.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Baker and Di Carlo’s new book calls for integrating schools and providing full-dollar cost funding students with higher educational needs. Integration alone will not deliver an adequate education; nor will sufficient funding alone. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/03/bake...

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Baker and DiCarlo's New Book Calls for a Unified Strategy to Combine Funding Reform and School Integration

JvonKorff on Education has been urging that Minnesota must fix its broken school funding system to provide enough funding to provide studen...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Just got my copy of Baker and Di Carlo's new book, Segregation and School Funding, How States reinforce Inequality and What to Do About It. Makes the point that segregation and inadequate funding are intertwined, and that the remedy requires funding the full cost of adequacy and integration.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

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Opinion | These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Thank you Education Minnesota for launching a federal court action to protect schools from chaos and fear that interferes with the constitutional right to an adequate education. Another important litigation is necessary thereafter: to enforce the fundamental right to full funding.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This is the first time since 1988 that Minnesota school districts have sued to enforce the right to an adequate education. While this litigation is for a good cause, it is ironic that no Minnesota districts commenced a suit to demand that the state comply with the Skeen court's funding decision.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

When are Minnesota Democrats going to demand compliance with the Skeen decisions requirement to appropriate enough funding to afford each student with an adequate education that meets all state standards?!!!

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Minnesota’s Cruz-Guzman litigation will not succeed in providing an adequate education unless reforms are accompanied by enough funding to afford each student with an adequate education, by robust accountability and effective practices. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/01/inte...

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Integrated Schools Must be Properly Funded to Deliver an Adequate Education (Part I)

Minnesota's Cruz-Guzman case is popularly understood to be a school desegregation suit, a modern version of Brown versus Board of Educatio...

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Catechism of the Catholic Church: damage inflicted by the aggressor must be “lasting, grave and certain”; all other means of stopping it “must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective”; ...and the action “must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.”

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In addition the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement between the U.S. and Denmark explicitly acknowledges Denmark's sovereignty over Greenland. A 2004 amendment further affirming Greenland as an equal part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Jerry Von Korff @jvonkorff.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Its time to protect the rights of undocumented children to a free public education. For this reason, JvonKorff on Education devotes this post to explaining why Minnesota's constitutional education clause independently protects that right. jvonkorff.blogspot.com/2026/01/minn...

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Minnesota's Constitutional Obligation to Educate all Children includes the Undocumented

In these times when nothing is unthinkable; no rights seem sacred, and the constitutional order has been turned upside down. Its time to r...

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