After a decade of education and community disinvestment, Minnesotans finally accept the fact everyone needs to start paying their fair share to adequately fund schools. However, the NRA, with its ludicrous School Shield Program, is giving conservative anti -tax policy makers the distraction they need to divert education dollars from students. Don’t be distracted by the NRA side show.
History’s boring. It’s just a bunch of irrelevant facts about dead people, an annoyed student letting off steam said during my student teaching at a Minneapolis high school. This wasn’t a discouraged, barely-passing student but one of the class’s highest achievers.
“I don’t want to cut my arts programs but I have to,” says the stressed school administrator on the other side of the telephone trying to make budget number balance.
Since our founding, the United States has be a country of many homogeneous communities and neighborhoods, sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity, and many times by forced segregation.
Despite the economic downturn and exurban foreclosures, counties north and west of the Twin Cities are expecting to see significant population and employment growth over the next 20 years.
The head of the AFL-CIO is pledging the full weight of more than 12 million members to stand in solidarity with sugar workers who've been locked out of their jobs at American Crystal Sugar plants for nearly a year. President Richard Trumka says keeping these 1300 workers from their jobs will do long-term damage not only to the workers and their families but the entire Red River Valley.
Minnesota’s big storms are getting bigger; they’re happening more often; and the flooding they produce is more severe, two separate reports find.
Many big city school districts already use pub
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