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Class of 2024 reflects on college years marked by COVID-19, protests and life’s lost milestones

Class of 2024 reflects on college years marked by COVID-19, protests and life’s lost milestones

College campuses have always been a hotbed for protests from the civil rights era to the Vietnam war to demonstrations over apartheid in South Africa. But students today also carry additional stresses from having lived through the isolation and fear from the pandemic, and the daily influence of social media that amplifies the world’s wrongs like never before, experts say.
by The Associated Press

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Minneapolis Public Schools, teachers reach tentative agreement overnight

Minneapolis Public Schools, teachers reach tentative agreement overnight

The agreement comes as Minneapolis teachers were set to begin a vote to authorize a strike over the next two days. Despite the deal with teachers, the union says the district’s support staff will move ahead with a strike authorization vote.
by Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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Minneapolis teachers set to vote this week on strike authorization

Minneapolis teachers set to vote this week on strike authorization

The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers says its members will vote on Thursday and Friday on authorizing a possible strike. The move comes after the union and district failed to reach a contract agreement after an 18-hour mediated negotiating session.
by Elizabeth Shockman

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Anoka-Hennepin school board OKs plan to avoid budget showdown

Anoka-Hennepin school board OKs plan to avoid budget showdown

Board members of the state’s largest school district agreed early Wednesday to move ahead with the budget process separately from policy and curriculum questions raised by a board member, the superintendent said.
by Elizabeth Shockman

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Higher-ed institutions find themselves in a financial pinch

Higher-ed institutions find themselves in a financial pinch

Northland College announced earlier this month that it was short on funds, and the school’s future is uncertain. Meanwhile, the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul told its employees that it will lay off 26 staff members and leave 30 open positions unfilled. Minnesota’s largest private university is contending with a $10.5 million budget gap. Higher-ed is struggling. 
by Cathy Wurzer, Matthew Alvarez and Heidi Raschke

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University of Minnesota students and faculty walk out after anti-war encampment cleared, 9 arrested

University of Minnesota students and faculty walk out after anti-war encampment cleared, 9 arrested

Protest organizers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus led a class walkout Tuesday afternoon to try to reestablish an encampment that authorities cleared from Northrop Mall earlier Tuesday.
by MPR News Staff and Nicole Ki

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