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Friday, Sept. 3 is MPR Day at the State Fair
 MPR News' Gary Eichten will host a debate between the three major party gubernatorial candidates and an interview with Garrison Keillor during a live Midday broadcast from Carousel Park, along with a live performance by choral group Cantus and hip-hop chanteuse Dessa. |
Candidate Forum Mini-grants
Due by September 13!
Don’t miss a perfect opportunity to educate and engage your community and increase your organization’s visibility! In an effort to inspire nonprofits to get involved with voter education, the Minnesota Participation Project is offering mini-grants to help cover the costs of hosting a candidate event. Up to $200 per candidate event is available to your organization, plus how-to training and moderator training—all you need to do is apply! |
July 26, 2010 - Civil Rights Groups Call for New Federal Education Agenda
Seven leading civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the National Urban League, called on U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today to dismantle core pieces of his education agenda, arguing that his emphases on expanding charter schools, closing low-performing schools, and using competitive rather than formula funding are detrimental to low-income and minority children, Education Week. |
July 2010 - Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning
State- and district-level policy makers need to engage more strategically in determining how states can provide support, not just pressure, for implementation of locally defined priorities for improvement within the framework of state standards and accountability policies, University of Minnesota (MPR article). |
Star Tribune
 
Math scores improved slightly in 2010 with 66 percent of students showing proficiency in math, while reading scores remained flat with 72 percent testing proficient. The scores reflect results among roughly 418,000 students in Minnesota's public and charter schools. In August, state education officials are expected to disclose how schools are doing under the federal No Child Left Behind law. Last year, nearly half of the state's public and charter schools were on the list of underperforming schools. |
June 30, 2010 - Minnesota is 2nd in need for well-educated workforce by 2018, new report says
A new national report offers this impressive prediction: Minnesota faces stand-out demand for workers with education beyond high school. While a generation of educated Minnesota workers is poised to retire during the next decade, the young people rising to replace them include greater proportions than the state has seen in many decades of recent immigrants and minorities. And students in those groups drop out of high school at alarming rates, MinnPost. |
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