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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Star Tribune
Gov. Tim Walz reflects on historic legislative session, urges more gun safety measures
Gov. Tim Walz took a victory lap Tuesday in his State of the State speech, recalling the DFL’s transformative 2023 legislative session and vowing a renewed push for tougher gun-safety laws and investments in the state’s deteriorating infrastructure.

Fox9
Minneapolis schools anticipate cutting at least 200 jobs
District leaders with the Minneapolis Public Schools anticipate significant cuts in both Central Office departments and schools, including at least 200 jobs, for the 2024-25 school year.

Inside Higher Ed
State support turns Minnesota’s enrollment tide
For the first time in over a decade, enrollment is up at Minnesota’s public colleges and universities, thanks to a record year of state funding and investment in a slew of new college-access initiatives.

KARE11
Minneapolis Public Schools propose cuts to cover $110 million budget gap
District administrators in the Minneapolis Public Schools laid out their 2024-25 budget proposal for the full school board on Tuesday night, which will serve as a starting point for negotiations over the next few months about how to close a historic budget gap.

Minnesota Reformer
Highlights from Walz’s state of the state: Education, infrastructure and gun control
Gov. Tim Walz delivered his sixth state of the state address at Owatonna High School on Tuesday, treating the 22-minute speech as a victory lap following the sweeping legislation passed in the 2023 session. He highlighted historic investments in public education, affordable housing and child care, among others.

Sahan Journal
All Minnesota public-school students can access free mental-health care, often in the school building. Here’s how to do it—and how it’s saving lives.
In 2000, few of Minnesota’s public school students had access to mental health therapy within the school building. Today, over half of students do.

Session Daily
Bill aims to help seasonal, recreational property-heavy school districts manage low tax bases
There are 92 school districts in mostly rural Minnesota that have been unable pass an operating tax levy and are being forced to cut services, programs, teachers and sports to continue to operate.


Education Minnesota press releases

Education Minnesota endorses Voegeli for state House

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The political action committee of Education Minnesota has endorsed Dwayne Voegeli, a high school social studies teacher in Winona, for District 26A in the Minnesota House of Representatives.