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'He ignored us': Local Minnesota school superintendent slams Walz's 'negative impact' on K-12 education
EXCLUSIVE: A local private school superintendent believes Gov. Tim Walz’s policies have had a “negative impact” on education in Minnesota, suggesting he “broke trust” with residents during the coronavirus pandemic.
“He’s ignored us,” Kim Friesen, who has lived in rural Minnesota for 21 years, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. “I think he’s broken trust with rural Minnesota because of education and how he hasn’t listened or visited or been out here.”
Friesen, who works as an administrator at Mountain Lake Christian School, detailed the effect she has seen Walz’s policies have on education in the state.
“The majority of the thinking that Governor Waltz did was all Metro. He didn’t consider some of the unique problems that we face in rural Minnesota, for example, connectivity,” Friesen said of rules enforced in the state during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s been kind of hard to see the negative impact that has taken place under Governor Waltz’s leadership.”
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Kim Friesen, a Minnesota school administrator, spoke with Fox News Digital about education in the state. (Fox News Digital)
Friesen said that rural families faced roadblocks to online learning requirements during the pandemic, such as not having access to the internet.
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“Rural Minnesota really suffered during that time,” she added. “I don’t think he cared for all his people well. He cared for the center of our state. North, south, rural, east and west, we did not get his attention, and we deserved his attention.”
Friesen also said that she does not think Walz appears to want to connect with rural Minnesotans.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a campaign event at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on Aug. 9, 2024. (Robyn Beck)
“I do believe that some of the things that he has said are very self-focused rather than people-focused. And I need a vice president that is going to be us focused,” she said. “He needs to know his people better. And if he’s not willing to do it in a state, how can he do it for the nation?”
When asked about a potential Harris-Walz administration, Friesen said that the policies enacted in Minnesota could be reflected at a national level – such as social issues and illegal immigration.
Walz signed an order making Minnesota a “trans refuge state,” where minors from out of state could receive transgender surgical procedures and hormone prescriptions.
“His ideas on allowing children or encouraging children from other states to come for transgender surgery or therapy, it just breaks my heart,” Friesen said of the order. “It rips parents’ authority away. And I don’t believe that’s God’s design. God gave children to parents, not to the government.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz were slammed on social media for sharing a “cringe” video of themselves interviewing each other. (RONDA CHURCHILL/AFP via Getty Images)
“Neither one of them are ready to lead a nation. Neither one. They don’t have the experience. They don’t have the wherewithal to fight for people who are here. And I think they have some distorted views on how to move forward. That would not better our state, nor our nation,” she said. “So that’s of concern.”
Before entering the political scene, Walz worked as a high school teacher in Minnesota.
One of Walz’s former students, who asked to remain anonymous, told Fox News Digital that he was a “very belittling teacher.”
“He yelled at students constantly. He would treat conservative students poorly and he would one side his teaching. If you were liberal he liked you, and if you were conservative he treated you like garbage. He was not a kind person. I nicknamed him “Hitler” because he was so strict and was constantly yelling at kids down the halls,” the former student told Fox.
“Not to mention he was a traitor and left his crew behind during war. There is nothing honorable about that!”
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DETROIT – Detroit is replacing thousands of lead pipes, which is great news! But that might come with a problem that you don’t expect.
The city of Detroit just received a $90 million grant that will allow it to replace 8,000 lead pipes per year. There are 80,000 total that need to be replaced, and that’s expected to be done by 2035.
So far, 9,727 have been replaced since 2018.
I know a lot about lead. A lot. When the Flint water crisis was exposed, I spent months in the Vehicle City covering the impact, the cause, and the ultimate solution. I saw the impact of lead and the serious danger in the people who were suffering.
Since then, many cities, including Detroit, have made it a focus to get the lead out.
Unfortunately, all the construction can cause some issues.
Recently, at my Help Me Hank lunch in Eastern Market, I met some seniors who call the west side home. They were thrilled that the lead service lines were removed in March, but they’re upset with the mess crews left behind.
There are exposed shut-off valves, and the pavement is torn up. Those are new dangers left behind because the fill work hasn’t been completed.
They worry children or seniors could fall. So now I’m working with the city to cover that part of the story, and to show you what you can do if you need this work done in your community.
Stay with me throughout the day as we update you on this important story. I’ll see you on Local 4 News starting at 5 p.m.
If you need repairs or have to report a problem, you can call DWSD at 313-267-8000, use the Improve Detroit app, or click here to visit the Improve Detroit website.
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MILWAUKEE – A plea deal has been reached for the two then-teens accused in the fatal shooting of a man at JJ Fish and Chicken in Milwaukee in January 2023.
Javontae Jones pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Aug. 14 to a charge of first-degree reckless homicide. By doing so, Jones avoids a trial. Jones is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 2.
Jones was accused along with his cousin, Jeffrey Coleman in the Jan. 1, 2023 shooting at the restaurant, court filings say. Coleman pleaded guilty on Monday, Aug. 19 to first-degree reckless homicide. He is set to be sentenced on Oct. 31.
Case details
According to a criminal complaint, Milwaukee police responded to the JJ Fish and Chicken restaurant near 33rd and Villard on Jan. 1, 2023, to investigate a homicide. Investigators found the victim on the floor at the restaurant – he was pronounced deceased.
32nd and Villard shooting; Milwaukee’s first homicide of 2023
Detectives spotted numerous cartridge casings, bullets and bullet strikes in the restaurant. Outside in the parking lot, they located a deformed bullet and three cartridge casings.
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The criminal complaint indicates exterior surveillance video was recovered from the restaurant. It shows a person get out of a vehicle and walk into the restaurant. Two other persons from a second car did the same. After about a minute, all three persons are seeing running out of the restaurant, getting into cars, and fleeing the scene. One of the persons is seen firing a gun – “based upon an observed muzzle flash,” the complaint says.
Surveillance video from inside the restaurant shows a man enter the restaurant and approach the counter with a gun tucked into his waistband, the complaint says. About a minute later, the victim and another person walked into the restaurant – and seconds after that, two other persons walk into the restaurant. A gun was pulled by the first person who entered the restaurant, and he “fires” at the victim and the person he was with, the complaint says. That person then pulled a gun – and he fired toward the front door. The complaint says two people “then fire numerous gunshots toward each other.”
32nd and Villard shooting; Milwaukee’s first homicide of 2023
After this incident, detectives were made aware that multiple juvenile shooting victims were en route to the emergency department at Children’s Wisconsin. Among them was the defendant, Jones, the complaint says.
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Investigators later identified Jones via fingerprints, the complaint says. Two other persons also identified Jones from a photo array. An officer later identified Coleman from a surveillance image of the shooting.
Violent crime tends to pick up in summer months, and in July, Minneapolis recorded nine homicides, totaling 43 on the year, according to a Star Tribune database. A downturn since then now has the city just under last year’s count through Aug. 13. But homicides here remain up by two-thirds from 2019.
St. Paul is somewhat similar, showing 16 homicides this year compared to 21 last year through July, according to a Star Tribune database. That database does not stretch back to 2019, but according to police, who track homicides differently, the city recorded 13 through July that year.
That the Twin Cities have shown declines in homicides but are yet to return to pre-pandemic numbers is common among American cities.
Two-thirds of the 29 cities studied for homicide trends by the Council on Criminal Justice have not returned to pre-pandemic numbers, the report said. The Twin Cities were not included in the homicide study.
Homicides nationally are down 13% from last year and are just under 2019 levels. That’s largely because of significant drops in big cities that tend to have higher homicide counts.
If the trend can hold, a return to 2019 levels would mark a significant milestone considering homicides jumped by nearly a third in 2020, the biggest single-year leap in U.S. history, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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