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Photos: Dayton, Legislators, visit Newport Elementary for universal preschool pitch

Gov Dayton and area legislators, visited Newport Elementary to make their case to fund universal preschool.

By Glen Stubbe

March 20, 2015 at 4:12PM
Governor Dayton showed the Pre K class photos of his dogs chewing on the frisbees he threw to them. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Friday, March 20, 2015 Governor Mark Dayton, Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius, and area legislators will visit a preschool classroom at Newport Elementary School. Senator Katie Sieben, Senator Susan Kent, and Representative Dan Schoen, visited with preschool students, teachers, and parents, and discuss the impact of their proposal to send every Minnesota four-year-old to preschool.
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Governor Dayton showed the Pre K class photos of his big dogs chewing on the frisbees he threw to them.

Governor Dayton watched as "letter of the week detective Marcellus School, 4, searched for things in the classroom that start with S. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Friday, March 20, 2015 Governor Mark Dayton, Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius, and area legislators will visit a preschool classroom at Newport Elementary School. Senator Katie Sieben, Senator Susan Kent, and Representative Dan Schoen, visited with preschool students, teachers, and parents, and discuss the impact of their proposal to send every Minnesota four-year-old to preschool.
(Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Governor Dayton watched as "letter of the week detective Marcellus School, 4, searched for things in the classroom that start with S.

Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius read "Time for School, Mouse!" to the Pre K class. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Friday, March 20, 2015 Governor Mark Dayton, Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius, and area legislators will visit a preschool classroom at Newport Elementary School. Senator Katie Sieben, Senator Susan Kent, and Representative Dan Schoen, visited with preschool students, teachers, and parents, and discuss the impact of their proposal to send every Minnesota four-year-old to preschool.
(Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius read "Time for School, Mouse!" to the class.

Rep. Dan Schoen, DFL- St. Paul Park, played farm with some Pre K students. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Friday, March 20, 2015 Governor Mark Dayton, Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius, and area legislators will visit a preschool classroom at Newport Elementary School. Senator Katie Sieben, Senator Susan Kent, and Representative Dan Schoen, visited with preschool students, teachers, and parents, and discuss the impact of their proposal to send every Minnesota four-year-old to preschool.
(Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Rep. Dan Schoen, DFL- St. Paul Park, played farm with some Pre K students.

Senator Katie Sieben, DFL-Newport visited with one of the PreK students at a learning center. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Friday, March 20, 2015 Governor Mark Dayton, Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius, and area legislators will visit a preschool classroom at Newport Elementary School. Senator Katie Sieben, Senator Susan Kent, and Representative Dan Schoen, visited with preschool students, teachers, and parents, and discuss the impact of their proposal to send every Minnesota four-year-old to preschool.
(Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Senator Katie Sieben, DFL-Newport strung beads with one of the PreK students at a learning center.

Senator Susan Kent, DFL-Woodbury, visited with one of the PreK students at a learning center. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Friday, March 20, 2015 Governor Mark Dayton, Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius, and area legislators will visit a preschool classroom at Newport Elementary School. Senator Katie Sieben, Senator Susan Kent, and Representative Dan Schoen, visited with preschool students, teachers, and parents, and discuss the impact of their proposal to send every Minnesota four-year-old to preschool.
(Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Senator Susan Kent, DFL-Woodbury, visited with students at a learning center.

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Glen Stubbe

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Photojournalist Glen Stubbe has been chief political photographer for the Minnesota Star Tribune since 2011 and was business photographer and photo editor before that. He was named Visual MN Photographer of the Year twice in a row, first in 2015, and then combined 2016-2017.

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