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Greater Minnesota needs mobility options
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT This is the first of two commentaries on rural transportation options. The hottest policy topics at the “One Minnesota 2015” conference, kicking off the new legislative session, were transportation needs and the demands of Minnesota’s aging baby boom population. And the political buzz was all about Greater Minnesota’s higher profile, due to the new Republican House majority’s r... Read More
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Refreshing tone augurs well for equity
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT The gavels fell and inaugural festivities played out this week against a distinctly different and practical resolve to find common ground and to fix what divides us, to compromise and find solutions that equalize opportunities and outcomes in Minnesota. This is unusual and significant because we are back to divided state government again, after a two-year spell of DFL monopoly that only briefly interrupted... Read More
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Summit reveals a workforce equity imperative
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT More than one common cause can unify our Republican state House and DFL state Senate and governor when they throw open the doors to the 2015 Legislature and begin deliberations on how to best invest in Minnesota’s future. Expansion of high-quality early childhood education, major transportation syste... Read More
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Listening closely to kids
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT The Timberlake Lodge ballroom in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, was filled to capacity recently with a rare assemblage of adults and teenagers, all engaged in candid conversations about whether the local community was delivering what kids really need to succeed. This was a truly unusual and ambitious undertaking and a big step forward for a very promising new rural community collaboration aimed at improvin... Read More
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Time to focus on rural education, workforce
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT Educators in the rural southern Minnesota towns of St. Clair and Spring Valley are delivering extraordinary value to their high-schoolers, and low-income students in particular, by offering special academies that provide advanced science and technology coursework, early college credits, and a faster track to postsecondary completion and good local jobs. Each of the small school districts serving those comm... Read More
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