OPINION | Some tuning needed for Minnesota arts education
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“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.
How well do we teach teachers?
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With the fate of our nation’s future riding on their work, few professions today face the scrutiny teachers do.
Study of low-income communities: Don’t break up the neighborhood
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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.
Long commute now? Wait till 2030
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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.
Minnesota’s storms worse, more worrisome
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Minnesota’s big storms are getting bigger; they’re happening more often; and the flooding they produce is more severe, two separate reports find.
A jolt to the sugar battle: AFL-CIO calls on American Crystal to return to “meaningful” negotiations with locked-out workers
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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.
Minneapolis Public Schools start students young on public transit
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Many big city school districts already use public transit to transport high school students.
What’s Deng Xiaoping have to do with the iPhone?
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To truly understand China’s growth as a global economic powerhouse, one must know a little about Deng Xiaoping. Continue Reading
Freedom to take workers’ liberty
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The legislative session is barely a week old and already Minnesota has been consumed by policy distractions and middle-class-killing proposals. Many come directly from corporate-sponsored ALEC model legislation.