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Why 'Pre-K for all' is the wrong approach on early education
Candidates are looking for votes, but targeting poorest kids is the best bet.
Letters
Readers Write: Student performance and the new school year, accountability in government, library fees
Those billboards about Minnesota schools don't help.
Tim Walz
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Gov. Tim Walz: Let's make Minnesota the Education State (for all)
Valuing education in every community is what every student deserves, and it determines our future.
Annie Abrams
How the Advanced Placement program is failing students
An examination of the initiative's drift over six decades.
Gil Barndollar
With little leverage in Afghanistan, U.S. can choose between a bad deal or no deal
Should U.S. troops stay longer, whatever the justification, our negotiating position will not be improved.
Editorial
Answers, results needed at Minnesota Department of Human Services
New leader needs to explain how she'll shore up and reform the long-embattled state agency.
Editorial
Johnson's move to suspend British Parliament is irresponsible
And his explanation that it's needed to launch domestic plan is dishonest.
D.J. Tice
Free speech? Or bigotry? Work it out in court
With wedding video case, this state contributes to the process.
Bonnie Blodgett
The Great Scott (Fitzgerald): 100 years in the public conscience
The St. Paul-born author had his contradictions, but he was on to something eternal about society and wealth.
Editorial, Seattle Times
Keep pushing to reform the Electoral College
It turns presidential elections into a contest for a few battleground states.
John Hausladen
America runs on trucks, but we need more drivers
Federal law makes it impossible for a high school graduate to jump into the cross-country trucking industry.
Robert Trousdale
U.S. Supreme Court to decide if LGBTQ Americans have the same rights to work
The DOJ is asking the court to overrule decades of precedent protecting employees from gender stereotyping in the workplace.
Editorial, Boston Herald
Preparing for the politics if Trump gets another SCOTUS pick
The Senate would vote on a new judge. Outrage would ensue.
John B. Gordon
Wedding filmmaker's claim that this is about free speech is a red herring
Trying to use free speech to justify discrimination against anyone is shameful.
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