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Two Minn. school districts awarded literacy grants

The McKnight Foundation has awarded $6 million in grant money to improve literacy efforts at two Minnesota school districts.
by Jon Collins

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Burnsville residents angry over school official's payout

School board members in the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage district hear from angry constituents upset about a large severance payout to a former human resources director.

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With budget surplus, state could remit payment to schools

With budget surplus, state could remit payment to schools

A glimmer of good news came this week for Minnesota schools: More than $300 million borrowed from schools last year to balance the budget will be paid back. The problem: The state still owes schools $2.4 billion in deferred payments.
by Tim Post

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Notes in the Margins: Fighting Sioux, Santorum fact-check and high-school courses

How to stop starving public colleges and shrinking the middle class America is  making it harder and harder for young people of modest means to attend college. But affordable public higher education is essential to preserving the middle class. (The Christian Science Monitor via University Business) College admissions: When high school courses matter most College admissions officers around…
by Alex Friedrich

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Getting an affordable college education

Getting an affordable college education

Today--with the cost of tuition as high as it is--students have to use a much smarter strategy for choosing a college. Personal finance educator Ruth Hayden will discuss how families can figure out what they can afford.

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Kaler's State of the University address

Check out his statements about UMore (p. 10), a possible year-round academic calendar (p. 10), faculty “entrepreneurial leave” (p. 13), and investments into “research infrastructure” including libraries (p. 13).
by Alex Friedrich

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Unionization vote for UMN grad assistants week of March 19

The state Bureau of Mediation Services has set week of March 19 for the election in which University of Minnesota graduate assistants decide whether they want to unionize. Full info should be above.
by Alex Friedrich

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Former U prez Bruininks named interim head of Bush Foundation

I’m not big on tracking the comings and goings of college execs (too many, too insider-baseball), but I figured Bruininks and the Bush Foundation are well-known enough to post this announcement from today (which I’ve edited for length). Interesting, considering the recent Strib story and commentary. Robert H. Bruininks Named Bush Foundation Interim President The…
by Alex Friedrich

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What Oles do when snow turns to rain

What Oles do when snow turns to rain

Looks like someone is taking the weird winter weather to heart. From St. Olaf College‘s Facebook site: So that ‘pretty snow’ earlier this week actually turned into rain. Quite a bit of it, in fact, leaving first-year students Michael Mayer, Brian Craig, and David Brendan Johnson no choice but to take the plunge.
by Alex Friedrich

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