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MPR News keeps track of the latest education news in Minnesota so you can understand the events shaping the future of learning and how it impacts students at any level.

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No lunch money, no lunch allowed in 46 Minnesota school districts

Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid says 15 percent of Minnesota school districts that responded to a recent survey report their policies allow lunchroom staff to refuse hot meals to students who can't pay.
by Matt Sepic

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University of Minnesota wants to continue stadium alcohol sales

University of Minnesota wants to continue stadium alcohol sales

University of Minnesota officials want beer and wine to keep flowing at TCF Bank Stadium. On Friday, regents will review a report on the U’s two-year experiment selling beer and wine in the stadium comes to an end July 1. Campus officials say selling alcohol has led to no significant increase in the number of Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Coed dorms, counselors’ admissions and a higher-ed overhaul

An Inmate and a Scholar When the newest issue of Columbia Journal of European Law came out last month featuring a 31-page scholarly article on Turkish nationals in the European Union, the author’s note at the bottom of the first page was the only indication that the writer was not your typical Ivy Leaguer. (The New Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Alcohol sales could continue at TCF Bank Stadium

Alcohol sales at University of Minnesota stadiums could continue after a report came out showing the sales haven't caused an increase in police calls on game days.
by Alex Friedrich

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St. Paul teachers union might take strike vote

District spokesman Matt Mohs says both sides share core values, but they disagree about policy and funding.
by The Associated Press

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UM Duluth's share of state money drops

Democratic state Rep. Mary Murphy says the state needs to make sure Duluth gets a bigger share of the money.

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College of St. Scholastica expanding into Arizona

College of St. Scholastica expanding into Arizona

The College of St. Scholastica has announced it’s expanding into Arizona — making it one of the few Minnesota private nonprofit colleges to have sites out of state. Scholastica’s vice president for strategic initiatives, Don Wortham, says the Duluth-based school has opened its first out-of-state site at a higher-education center in a suburb of Phoenix. Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Study: University of Minnesota – Duluth seventh in per-capita drug and alcohol arrests

Study: University of Minnesota – Duluth seventh in per-capita drug and alcohol arrests

The University of Minnesota – Duluth has the seventh-largest number of on-campus arrests per capita for drug and alcohol violations, according to a study publicized in The Huffington Post. The campus logged 14.3 arrests per 1,000 students — behind first-place University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, which had 22.41. The data is limited — and a little Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Marketization, Islamic frats and an admin boom

The marketisation of our universities is fragmenting the academic workforce at the students’ expense Business criteria, not education or the public good, drive what marketised universities do. Universities are restructuring for the new era, ploughing money into marketing and glitzy buildings, designed to appeal to applicants as much as function for those that use them. (Impact of Social Sciences) New Read more →
by Alex Friedrich

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