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Hundreds of Minnesota students are caught up each year in the often sudden shuttering of charter schools. School leaders say the closings create a cycle that sets more schools and students up for failure.
The governor, making his fourth appearance in the battleground state as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, asked voters for ‘All gas, no brakes.’
The administration’s policies on law enforcement, community roles and gun control helped erase the spike in killings.
The 10-foot-tall work, inspired by sculptures by two other Native American artists, emerged from a Minneapolis studio with a radical mission: “There’s a lot of healing happening here.”
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