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A warm front divides Minnesota between spring-like warmth in the south and colder conditions north. While temperatures are in the 30s north, parts of southern Minnesota are starting the day in the 50s. More on Updraft.
 
'Final offer' from Minneapolis school leaders

The Minneapolis public school district issued what it called its final offer to education support professionals, as the ongoing strike will cancel a 10th day of classes on Monday.

Teachers and educational support professionals want more money, smaller class sizes and other concessions from Minneapolis Public Schools. Those are demands the district says it can’t afford.

The latest development came Sunday, when the district offered its “last, best and final” offer to the educational support professionals, or ESPs. The complex offer includes an average pay bump of more than 15 percent over two years. That would get most of the full-time ESPs close to a salary of $35,000 a year, according to the district.

“We know that our students want to be back in school with their teachers and ESPs and our staff desperately want to see our students,” said 

Minneapolis School Board Chair Kim Ellison, in a video message posted by the district. “We believe this is the fastest way possible to get our students back to school."

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Worthington’s fast-growing communities of color see economic gains but little political power. Yet

People of color are the majority now in Worthington, but politics in the city and across Nobles County remain nearly all white and male. That’s a growing concern for those who see political representation in southwestern Minnesota as the next important step. Change may be coming

 
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Ukraine rejects Russian demand for surrender in Mariupol Ukrainian officials have defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down arms and raise white flags in exchange for safe passage. Russian troops have surrounded and are barraging the strategic southern port city.

Ketanji Brown Jackson's long judicial record is likely to be scrutinized at hearings If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to serve on the nation's highest court, and she would be one of four women on the court, the largest number ever to serve at one time. Watch the first day of confirmation hearings here.

Latest Vikings stadium debate chapter: How to save on debt A decade after approving the Minnesota Vikings stadium, lawmakers are weighing a plan that would pay off the public debt much sooner.
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