Like most other students at Moose Lake, a school with only 184 students, Daniel Lilya plays a variety of sports. Unlike those other students, however, Lilya was born with a broken back, is a paraplegic, and has been confined to a wheelchair his entire life.
The lawsuit asserted that children of color have not received a quality education and that '[s]chool children in public schools throughout the State of Minnesota, including the City of Minneapolis, the City of Saint Paul, and their adjacent suburban communities, are largely segregated by race and socioeconomic status.'
This is the time of the year when Arizona is one of the smartest states in the nation. Arizona doesn't spring forward or fall back. It leaves its clocks alone.
I had vowed this year that I would not succumb to the allure of the Minnesota State High School Tournament hockey-hair team that John King puts together every year.
Like the Macarena, as soon as the media became obsessed with the thing, it was past time to move on.
Surdyk's decision to flaunt the law isn't much different from preachers who endorse political candidates from the pulpit, daring the federal government to do something about (it usually doesn't).
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