SchoFROM FOX NEWS: In a resurfaced letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the head of the Minnesota Catholic Conference expressed that Catholic and other nonpublic schools were in “urgent and critical need” of security improvements, saying, “Our schools are under attack.”
The plea went unheeded, and two years later, the concerns raised by Catholic leaders materialized when a gunman opened fire on students of a Minneapolis Catholic school while they were attending Mass, leaving two dead and 17 injured.
The letter was first reported on by the Daily Wire and was sent by Minnesota Catholic Conference Executive Director Jason Adkins and Tim Benz, president of the private school advocacy group MINNDEPENDENT. The letter was sent on April 14, 2023, and is still publicly available on the Minnesota Catholic Conference’s website.
The leaders expressed serious concern that the 72,000 students enrolled in independent, Catholic, Jewish, Christian and Muslim schools in Minnesota could be in danger due to nonpublic schools being excluded from the $50 million Building and Cyber Security Grant Program and the state’s Safe Schools Program, which provides emergency response training, security upgrades, mental health services and other security measures.
“We are writing on behalf of our respective organizations regarding the urgent and critical need in Minnesota to make sure our schools are secure and safe considering the most recent, and continuing attacks, on our schools in this country and in our state,” the leaders wrote.
The leaders expressed concerns about the mass shooting at Covenant Christian School in Nashville that occurred shortly before the letter was sent.
“The latest school shooting at a nonpublic Christian school in Tennessee sadly confirms what we already know – our schools are under attack,” the letter said.
“In Minnesota, nonpublic schools, particularly our Jewish and Muslim schools, have experienced increased levels of threats, all of which we must take very seriously,” the leaders added. “The tragedy from last week at Covenant School must never happen in Minnesota or in our country again.”
“We need to ensure that all of schools have the resources to respond to and prevent these attacks from happening to our schools,” the leaders wrote.
🚨BREAKING: Private Schools in Minnesota were WARNING Governor Tim Walz that they “URGENTLY” needed FUNDS to protect CLASSROOMS… and WALZ SNUBBED THEM 🚨
Instead, Tim Walz focused on turning MINNEAPOLIS into a TRANS SANCTUARY state…
AND NOW, TWO KIDS were just KILLED.
ENOUGH… pic.twitter.com/IJo8Ds4qpF
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) August 28, 2025
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