Minnesota Legislature moves to special session. 2 new measles cases in the Twin Cities
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An education bill has been agreed on in a Minnesota Legislature working group, meaning it is ready to move on to a special session. The bill holds costs flat in the first biennium and cuts $420 million in the 2028-29 biennium. The bill makes cuts to teacher pipeline programs, gives a smaller-than-anticipated increase to student support personnel and trims reimbursement for special education transportation.
The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting two new measles cases in the Twin Cities.
Hennepin County prosecutors have charged a 20-year-old man with shooting and wounding two people last week at a high school graduation ceremony on the University of Minnesota campus.
President Donald Trump has picked the head prosecutor in the Feeding Our Future case to lead the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office on a temporary basis. Joe Thompson is expected to working on that case while serving as acting United States Attorney. The Minnesota native most recently led the office’s white collar division, which is prosecuting 71 people on charges of defrauding taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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