Chris Lindholm, Pequot Lakes superintendent, resigned earlier this year but says his decision was not prompted by parents' backlash to his video promoting equity in the district | Elizabeth Shockman, MPR News
Today's weather will be partly cloudy with highs in the 80s to near 90. Tonight: clear with lows in the 60s — 50s if you're in northeast Minnesota. The state is falling into a dry pattern again, which includes lower humidity.
In many states, not just Minnesota, groups of parents are combating efforts to educate students on equity and diversity. Twenty-six states have introduced some form of legislation aimed at restricting how teachers discuss racism and sexism.
One place this is boiling up locally is the Pequot Lakes school district in central Minnesota. Parents have taken to school board meetings and Facebook groups to express their outrage over the district embracing a national program called SEED. It all started when Chris Lindholm, the district's superintendent, shared a video celebrating the work the schools have done to become more welcoming, including SEED. Parents started a Facebook group to complain and make plans to push back on the district.
The end is in sight after a public safety measure that will change police laws passed amid deep division over the end product. And in a flurry of activity in the early morning hours, the House and Senate effectively ended the COVID-19 peacetime emergency that Gov. Tim Walz has relied on to manage the state’s pandemic response.
The report has recommendations to centralize the evaluation process, involve more officers in more formalized field training programs and provide financial incentives for trainers. Committee chair Linea Palmisano said she hopes the changes will increase accountability and transparency in post-academy training efforts.
A second daily St. Paul-to-Chicago Amtrak train is expected in 2024, after lawmakers set aside $10 million for the project. The second train will supplement existing Amtrak service on the Empire Builder route, which stops in St. Paul as it connects Chicago to Seattle or Portland, Oregon.
With the World Health Organization urging vaccinated people to mask up and the CDC saying it's up to you, confusion is understandable. If you're vaccinated, do you need to mask up or not?
