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Children Without Chairs - A Standing Room Only Classroom

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Feb 24th 2009 9:00AM

In traditional classrooms, educators teach the three Rs and do it with three rules: Sit down. Be quiet. Sit still. But Minnesota teacher Abby Brown knows that kids are noisy when they're learning. She believes moving around doesn't just help her ...
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Al Franken and Norm Coleman's Minnesota Mistake

by Rob Barrett, Posted Jan 11th 2009 2:00PM

Up here in Minnesota we have a mess, a real mess. And I'm not talking about the slushy, salt covered roads. During the elections back in November, nearly equal numbers of Minnesotans wanted Republican Senator Norm Coleman and Democratic comedian Al ...
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School district drops Mondays to save money

by Bethany Sanders, Posted May 17th 2008 2:00PM

What's the easiest way for public schools to save money? How about to not have school in the first place? That seems to be the growing trend, anyway. Our own local district will be shutting down on May 30th this year, a full two weeks earlier than ...
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Parents get school to drop newspaper due to news content

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Oct 23rd 2006 10:01AM

An elementary school in Minnesota has blocked students' access to free newspapers due to a complaining parent. The parent complained about the "sex, death and general mayhem" of the newspapers, which were provided free-of-charge by the St. Paul ...
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Minnesota law could force married couple into celibacy

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 10th 2006 12:00PM

Because of a quirk in a Minnesota state law, LaRae Lundeen Fjellman could lose her massage therapist license. The law states that no massage therapist is allowed to have sexual relations with a client at any time during the massage services or for ...
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