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Education coverage includes what's working, what's not working, how our kids are doing, how our college students are paying for their educations, the achievement gaps, teachers, students, parents, district schools, charter schools, private schools — and your contributions and opinions are welcome. 

Our weekly Education Newsletter highlights articles, blog posts, events, and links. For example, look for lots of links to thoughtful discussions of education issues from Beth Hawkins at MinnPost and Diane Ravitch at Education Week.

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E-12 omnibus budget bill invests in all-day kindergarten and narrowing the achievement gap

By Caitlin Biegler, Minnesota Budget Bites

The E-12 education final omnibus bill (House File 630) for FY 2014-15 makes important investments toward ensuring that all Minnesota students receive a top education and addressing Minnesota’s racial achievement gap. The final bill increases E-12 education funding by $485 million in the FY 2014-15 biennium.

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Tired of waiting for answers, Jordan's police chief finds his own school safety solution

By Selin Kurtoglu, ThreeSixty

“Officer Empey, am I going to get shot today?”

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Know the rules, know your school: Inside and out, schools require attentive eyes and ears

By Brianna Skildum, ThreeSixty

Keeping Roosevelt High School safe is the ultimate goal for principal Michael Bradley.

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Peer-to-peer positivity: Counselors can help, but the real difference makers are students

By Isaura Lira Greene, ThreeSixty

The cafeteria is a noisy thrall filled with clamoring voices and excitable chewing. You watch as a boy, hunching his back and with a hoodie pulled over his head, walks toward an empty table in the corner. You mean to go over to him and ask who he is or whether he has any friends. But then your best friend comes up from behind you and covers your eyes with her hand.

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The new normal: The threat of violence weighs heavy on the minds of school and safety officials

By Maya Shelton-Davies, ThreeSixty

“Shooter kills 27, 20 of them students, in Newtown.”

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OPINION | The struggle to get help: 'Some of us can't do everything ourselves ...'

By Tatum Anderson, ThreeSixty

If you saw someone about to jump off a bridge, your first thought would probably be, “That person needs help.”

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OPINION | Washburn students get their say, but not without the need for deeper reflection

By Victoria Turcios, ThreeSixty

Coming home from spring break, I never thought that Washburn High School would make headlines in the StarTribune and be on the news. Or that I would participate in a sit-in at school and skip my 5th hour to see so many students sitting peacefully in front of our main office so that their voices could be heard.

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Love it or list it? HGTV challenges for public schools

By Mary Turck, News Day

Imagine the public school system as a house, Mary Cecconi said. The house is not working for us. Do we move? Do we tear it down? Do we renovate? To me, that sounds a lot like Love It or List It?, the popular HGTV program in which interior designer Hilary tries to renovate a family's home to make it work for them, while real estate agent David tries to find and sell them a new home.

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E-DEMOCRACY | The charterization and de-unionization of the Minneapolis Public Schools is picking up steam

By Multiple authors, E-Democracy issues forums

From: Dan McGuire Date: 5:26pm, May 18

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Minneapolis Public Schools Black student suspensions twice state average; district aims for more consistent discipline among schools, teachers

By Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

According to Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) data from the last two school years, the suspension rates of Black students in Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) are twice that of Black students suspended statewide. Additionally, more Black students were suspended in 2011-12 (4,336) than in 2010-11 (4,305).

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