Youth Policy
Childhood eye screening bill gets House OK
Learning can be tough when you can’t see the blackboard.MORE »
New anti-bullying bill is an improvement
Minnesota recently introduced a new bill in the state legislature (House File 1953) to strengthen our existing anti-bullying law, which has been touted MORE »
Notifying an abuse victim's parents
Sarah Guggisberg has lived a mother’s nightmare that she doesn’t want to happen to anyone else.
While spending weekends with her ex-husband in 2005, her 5-year-old son, Jacob, was sexually abused by a neighbor. She wasn’t informed of the incident until Jacob told her four years later.MORE »
Looking on the bright side in Minnesota
The Minnesota Compass annual meeting was packed with positive messages. Yes, we still have an achievement gap, unemployment, and various problems throughout the state — but Minnesota knows what to do to overcome these problems, and, by golly, we're moving on up! (Or, as the title of the meeting put it, "positioning ourselves for prosperity.")MORE »
Minneapolis Somali youth talks jobs with President Obama
Hashim Yonis was born in Somalia. He and his family were forced to flee his native land and live in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya because of a civil war when he was young. He eventually wound up in Minnesota, where he attended middle school, high school and college.MORE »
Sex education advocates say Minnesota needs guidelines, too
In early January, a coalition of health and education groups released new national guidelines for sex education. The new standards (click on pdf file at end of article) have gained particular attention for their inclusion of education around sexual orientation and bullying, and of guidelines for young students:MORE »
Conservative Christian parents fight for right to discriminate against LGBT students at Anoka Hennepin
A slew of conservative Christian parents — and even an orthodox rabbi — implored the Anoka-Hennepin School District to purge schools of any mention of homosexuality and demanded that teachers teach about the “ex-homosexual” movement and “gay-related immune deficiency.” One district member even assailed Dan Savage’s It Gets Better campaign as vulgar and accused the popular columnist of teaching MORE »
School and teacher: Anchors for homeless students in Minneapolis, St. Paul
Second grade teacher Ruth Craft’s biggest clue often comes at the end of the first day of school, when some of her students pack the contents of their desks into their backpacks. Thanks to in-school training and years of experience, Craft knows that those students may have had things lost or broken during a move, or they might not have school supplies where they’re staying.MORE »
Homelessness on the rise in Twin Cities schools: Shayla’s story
Like many of Edison High School’s homeless and highly mobile students, senior Shayla Perry’s* story is full of twists and turns, long bus rides, new neighborhoods and schools full of strangers.MORE »
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