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Why student loan borrowers with disabilities aren't getting the help they deserve

Why student loan borrowers with disabilities aren't getting the help they deserve

Hundreds of thousands of borrowers are eligible to have their student loans erased because a disability keeps them from working. NPR found many will likely never get the debt relief they're owed.
by Cory Turner and Clare Lombardo

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Chinese, English language students learn from each other in U of M program

Chinese, English language students learn from each other in U of M program

A University of Minnesota program matches international students learning English with local high school students who have gone through Chinese immersion programs. Both get to work on their language skills in a conversational setting.
by Riham Feshir

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Wealthy donor promises college tuition to help spur growth in Kansas hometown

Wealthy donor promises college tuition to help spur growth in Kansas hometown

A retired businessman hoping to save his shrinking hometown launched a "Promise" program to pay college tuition for its students, but his plan might simply shift people around among dwindling towns.
by Celia Llopis-Jepsen

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AG Ellison: Agreement will help districts afford school milk

AG Ellison: Agreement will help districts afford school milk

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says his office has reached an agreement to help more than 40 school districts afford to buy milk for students through 2030.
by The Associated Press

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Macalester president wants founder’s name removed from building

Macalester president wants founder’s name removed from building

The president of the private liberal arts college in Minnesota is asking his board of trustees to remove the school founder’s name from a campus building over concerns about his racist and sexist views in the 1800s.
by The Associated Press

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Forest Lake teachers rewrite old song with new words to produce anti-vape video

Forest Lake teachers rewrite old song with new words to produce anti-vape video

Instead of just hanging up posters with anti-vaping messages around a Forest Lake middle school, one teacher enlisted her husband and her colleagues to craft a video to get their message out: Vaping is “poison.”
by Tarkor Zehn

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Richfield school officials apologize for tossing lunches

Richfield school officials apologize for tossing lunches

As many as 40 students in the lunch line Monday had their hot lunches taken off their trays, thrown in the trash and replaced with a cold lunch when a lunchroom staff member at the register saw that they had outstanding lunch debts of more than $15.
by The Associated Press

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