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Does Minnesota need a biennial?
"I don't think the world needs another biennial." That was Adam Weinberg's answer when I asked him whether he thought Minnesota needs an art biennial.MORE »
Parents United for Public Schools holds legislative kick-off
Parents United for Public Schools (PUPS), a statewide advocacy organization for public schools had its “legislative kickoff” meeting on Saturday, January 21, informing parents and others about the key legislative issues at stake for public schools.MORE »
Child care bill moves forward
CORRECTED 1/27/2011 - Union dues or fair share fees could not be deducted from the child care assistance fund payments providers receive.MORE »
Integration programs face uncertain future as task force deadline nears
In a few short weeks, the Integration Revenue Task Force will submit recommendations to the legislature on how the state should redistribute $110 million of integration revenue. As the recommendation deadline nears, a broad range of programs face uncertain futures.MORE »
Coming soon in Minneapolis: American Indian Movement Interpretive Center
In a touch of irony, wood stolen from White Earth Reservation land was used to build the Henry B. Frey House, which is now becoming the American Indian Movement Interpretive Center (AIMIC). The old Minneapolis mansion at 1206 5th Street SE became a University of Minnesota fraternity house for many years and then housed Heart of the Earth Survival School. Now it will become a center for collecting, organizing and preserving American Indian history for students, scholars, and especially American Indians interested in their history.
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Graph of the day: How do charter schools stack up?
In yesterday's graph, we looked at the proportion of Minnesota public school students that attend charters and found it to be quite low. Of course, the distribution of charter schools is not consistent across the state; some areas have no charter schools while others have several.MORE »
Legendary African American filmmaker/writer, Oscar Micheaux — Just down the road
Every summer Minnesotans head Southwest for the hills, eager to visit the mountains or the Coast – and every trip means a stop at the Wall Drug or the Corn Palace in Mitchell, by legend the only places worthy of a pit stop in South Dakota. The good news – there is a treasure to be explored in Gregory, South Dakota. It’s a treasure well worMORE »
Twin Cities Somalis despair over hawala closures
Amina Hassan hasn’t felt this helpless in a long time. A refugee who fled Somali 20 years ago and now an American citizen, the middle-aged single mother can’t send remittances to her impoverished relatives in Somalia anymore.
Hassan is one of thousands of Minnesota Somalis who have despaired ever since the shut-down of Somali-owned money services businesses (MSBs) in the Twin Cities two weeks ago.MORE »
St. Paul students instruct teachers about "Achieving Within the Gap"
REVISED AND REPUBLISHED - January 16, 2012 | Recent graduates from St. Paul’s Central High School have created an interactive multi-media workshop about one thing they think is missing from the debate about the achievement gap — the voices of students themselves. Spearheading this workshop is Central High’s theater teacher, Jan Mandell, who is currently the District Arts Literacy Coach for St.MORE »
THEATER | Comedy Suitcase's "The Harty Boys Save Christmas" at Bryant-Lake Bowl: Slapstick and satire make nice
On the first day of winter (meteorologically speaking) sitting in the stadium seating of the Bryant-Lake Bowl theater watching The Harty Boys Save Christmas, it felt like summer. More specifically, it felt like the Fringe Festival had come early this year (or again, actually). Maybe because the show is at BLB, probably because Joshua English Scrimshaw and Levi Weinhagen revived their characters from their 2009 Fringe show The Harty Boys in The Case of the Limping Platypus. Either way, it was what the opposite of Christmas in July is, and the weird entertainment that the Fringe Festival produces was alive and kickin'.MORE »
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