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Shelter Report: Little kids and old men

By Charlie Quimby, Across the Great Divide

The preschool had closed for the day and I was wrapping up my bike cable when Darius rolled over on a little scooter. He was on the sidewalk, peering through the tall iron fence that separates it from the parking lot.

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Regents approve new University of Minnesota budget, including tuition freeze for some

By Janice Bitters and Roy Aker, The Minnesota Daily

The University of Minnesota Board of Regents approved a tuition freeze for resident undergraduate students Friday, the first time in a generation.

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Act for Education plans theater focused on education issues

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Last January, Maria Asp, a local actress and theater educator attended a conference sponsored by United Way that was all about school reform, touting the successes of school districts in Miami and

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Beat-the-odds students explore the law at University of Minnesota program

By Cynthia Boyd, MinnPost

Beating-the-educational-odds stories are popular this graduation time of year. More than that, they are heartening.

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Feds might do what Minnesota couldn't on school bullying

By Michael Peterson, Minnesota 2020

Congress is currently rewriting and replacing the defunct No Child Left Behind law. This new bill, dubbed the Strengthening America's Schools Act, should focus on student learning and building thinking skills and limits inflexible test standards. However, buried in the 1,150-page bill is an act Minnesota Senator Al Franken introduced, called the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA). Franken, along with others, is seeking to extend title IX style discrimination protection to the LGBT community by extending civil rights protections to students based on sexuality and gender identity.

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Schools seek remedies to racial suspension gap

By Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Black students nationwide are suspended at least twice more frequently than any other student group and up to three times more often in many Twin Cities metro area urban and suburban school districts. However, school officials say that they are working on reducing Black suspension rates using a variety of strategies.

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New developments in "Ghetto Spirit," Buffalo Wild Wings stories

By Mary Turck, News Day

Back in April, Hopkins High students and allies protested the suspension and criminal charges leveled against two African American students after an earlierMORE »

Parents plead to keep charter school open at Minneapolis school board meeting

By Alleen Brown, TC Daily Planet

Parents of students who attend the soon-to-be evicted Minnesota School of Science begged district school board members at Tuesday’s board meeting to allow the charter school to stay in its North Minneapolis building. Their emotional testimony illustrated the uphill battle Minneapolis Public Schools faces in convincing families that the district decision to kick another program out of the beleaguered North Minneapolis building is what’s best for their children.

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Young Minnesota Somalis step up to change lives through scholarship money

By Ibrahim Hirsi, TC Daily Planet

Aisha Warsame, left, and Zamzam Ahmed, right, were announced winners of 2013-14 Shanta Foundation Scholars (Photo by Ilyaas Maow.)

When several Somali-American friends in Minneapolis recently discussed ways to give back to their community, they figured the most essential thing would be to contribute to the educational welfare of the community’s youngsters.

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Business leader EJ Ajax says four year college not for everyone, offers manufacturing apprenticeships

By Lennie Chism, KFAI Radio

EJ Ajax, co-owner and vice president of EJ Ajax and Sons. He’s a third generation metal-former and leads a company founded by his grandfather in 1945.

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