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Fraser and Quie: Still reaching across the aisle
Don Fraser (left) served as a legislator, a congressman, and mayor of Minneapolis. Al Quie (right) served as a legislator, a congressman, and governor of Minnesota. ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT On the floor of the Minnesota State Senate almost 60 years ago, Al Quie, the conservative son of a farmer from southeastern Minnesota, walked over to introduce himself to Don Fraser, the liberal son of a University of Minnesota ... Read More
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In U.S. schools, we’re all minorities now
ST. PAUL LEAGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT This fall, for the first time in the history of the United States, just under 50 percent of the students in U.S. public schools were white, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. And although the white proportion of the U.S. population is not projected to fall below half until 2043, the public school picture is quickly beginning to reflect both continued immigration and the fact that n... Read More
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To remain competitive, MN must look to middle
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT The term “alignment” has long been the dominant buzzword in workforce policy circles. And the bar graphs on the most recent report by the National Skills Coalition provide a useful if simplistic big picture view of the mismatch between jobs and workforce readiness in Minnesota and the United States. The bars show that Minnesota currently has a slightly larger percentage of people with four-year... Read More
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Metro and rural MN form collaborations and take action on opportunity gaps in education
Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and an impressive line-up of Twin Cities business executives, top school administrators and elected officials presided this week over a roll-out of three specific new education initiatives aimed at closing the opportunity disparities that threaten our state’s economic future. The specific action agenda of this “Generation Next” partnership, for both Minneapolis and St. Paul, will focus... Read More
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Workforce training, race equity can be unifying priority for ’15
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT Those of us on the road and vacationing in Minnesota this summer are seeing more “Help Wanted” and “Get Job Applications Here” signs than we’ve seen in many years. At midmorning this week, for instance, along West St. Germain Street just west of downtown St. Cloud, a man was actually wearing this happy problem. He was walking up and down the sidewalk outside a job-placement ce... Read More
