While Minnesota policymakers continue to throw gobs and gobs more taxpayer funds toward our sub-standard public schools while expecting better outcomes, other states are moving ahead, including Arkansas. Created by the LEARNS Act, a “2023 law that made sweeping changes to the state’s K-12 education system,” Arkansas school children are now eligible to participate in a program where state …
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“In Minnesota, more than half of Fosters experience homelessness by age 24.” That was a shocking headline from a group advocating for legislative changes for Minnesota children caught up in an often-failing foster care system. A system that doesn’t have uniform standards in all 87 counties. A government-run system that cites as progress federal data that shows a drop in the numbers of children …
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their golden retriever Gilbert will lie in state in the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda on Friday from noon to 5 p.m. Melissa Hortman’s rise to power was slow, steady and remarkable KSTP-TV Melissa Hortman’s rise to power as a state representative from Brooklyn Park in the Minnesota House to Speaker of the House wouldn’t be described as …
