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February 15, 2011 6:12 AM

Minn. educators call for help keeping kids of low-income familes fed during summer

Although it's only February, the Minnesota Department of Education has put out a call for non-profits, schools, and faith-based organizations to sponsor the federally-funded Summer Food Service Program.

by Julie Siple

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February 15, 2011 5:02 AM

(Update) Gov. Dayton's budget cuts $171 million from higher ed

Here’s what MPR reporter Tim Post has on the higher-ed portion of the governor’s announced state budget this morning. A fuller, more general story by MPR’s Elizabeth Dunbar follows: Gov. Mark Dayton’s budget cuts $171 million from the state’s higher education budget. Both the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system see…

by Alex Friedrich

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February 15, 2011 5:00 AM

Policy drives bad decisions on school transportation

Suburban, rural districts must divert money from the classroom to pay for busing mandate.

by Charles Marohn

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February 15, 2011 4:32 AM

U of Minnesota paper: Tuition freeze a bad idea

A tuition freeze looks like it would benefit students at the University of Minnesota, where tuition has doubled since 2001. But this is a simplistic, short-term point of view. The state has already limited the revenues of public universities through insufficient funding. Constricting revenues even further by freezing tuition will hamstring them and lower educational…

by Alex Friedrich

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February 15, 2011 4:24 AM

Capella to fire 125 as stocks fall and enrollment forecast plunges

Just got this from Bloomberg this morning: Capella Education Co., a for-profit online-education company based in Minneapolis, fell as much as 15 percent in Nasdaq Stock Market trading after forecasting a 35 percent decline in new enrollments for the current quarter. Capella also said it will fire 125 non-faculty employees, or 8 percent of its…

by Alex Friedrich

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February 15, 2011 3:14 AM

Winona State University grad: Debt is keeping me from the career I want

Judging from its latest tweets, it looks like the Minnesota State Student Association is continuing to collect stories on how debt has affected recent grads. This video is the story of Josh Martin (search for his name in the survey results), who got a bachelor’s in English from Winona State University. He’s about $19,000 in…

by Alex Friedrich

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February 15, 2011 2:21 AM

Notes in the Margins: Conservatives, drugs and the admissions arms race

A College Opts Out of the Admissions Arms Race Ursinus College in Pennsylvania decides it can no longer sustain annual, double-digit growth in applications, and in the process becomes the rare college making it harder to apply. (The New York Times) Obama’s education budget would spare Pell grants, increase spending 11% overall President Obama wants…

by Alex Friedrich

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February 14, 2011 8:41 PM

Minn. officials open to another Race to the Top run

School officials in Minnesota say they'd be interested in applying for federal education funding in the so-called 'Race to the Top' contest, if Congress approves more funding.

by Tom Weber