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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. # # # |
| 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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