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Links to media coverage about public education issues.

Special Features

Keeping Public Schools Public: Free-Market Education - A disturbing number of voucher schools are little more than refurbished, cramped storefronts.

Inside School Choice, 15 Years of Vouchers - A seven part series produced by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal.

MPR: The Future of Small Towns: Ideas for Education - Submit your ideas on the future of education in rural Minnesota.

Star Tribune Featured Project - No Child Left Behind: Kids who need help don't get it.

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Princeton decisions to lower activity fees is right
12/28/2005 12:00 AM
Don Heinzman, Forest Lake Times
Two school districts are taking the risk and the lead to lower fees for students who desire to play sports and participate in all-important extra curricular activities.

School boards, teachers urged to reach contract settlements
12/28/2005 12:00 AM
With a Jan. 15 deadline looming, school boards and teachers are being prodded to reach contract settlements more quickly this year.
Norman Draper, Star Tribune

Was 2005 a good year for education in Minnesota?
12/27/2005 12:00 AM
MPR, Midday

Teachers low on supplies get new place to 'shop'
12/26/2005 12:00 AM
Dan Wascoe, Star Tribune
Most of the year, Cary Weatherby is the secondhand Rose of Bloomington public schools. Even during the holidays, she's sort of a scavenger Santa.

Federal cuts will hurt K-12 education
12/24/2005 12:00 AM
Editorial, Star Tribune
It's a matter of giving a little with one hand, then taking away even more with the other.

We need to discuss school funding
12/23/2005 12:00 AM
Letters to the Editor, Pioneer Press
In Mark Yost's Dec. 6 column, "Is Minnesota really underfunding education?," he again takes on the role of a mouthpiece for the Taxpayers League. Yost admits the need for an "honest, open debate about education funding."

Letters to the Editor, Pioneer Press
12/22/2005 12:00 AM

How will we pay for five more weeks?
12/21/2005 12:00 AM
Letters from Readers, Star Tribune
With recent school closings, increased activity fees, teacher layoffs and crowded classrooms, I was stunned to hear that certain school officials and political figures were proposing to spend precious funds to extend the school year by five weeks.

LONGER SCHOOL YEAR: A student's perspective
12/21/2005 12:00 AM
Letters from Readers, Star Tribune
After reading the article on the proposal to add five weeks to the school year, I was surprised to see that the perspectives of the nearly 900,000 people this will affect most were not included, the students.

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