Temperatures Thursday continue to run about 10 degrees colder than normal across Minnesota. Highs in the 20s and 30s will feel brisk, but with less wind than we felt Wednesday. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

Coming up on Morning Edition: We have new data this morning that’s revealing more about how the pandemic is continuing to affect Minnesota students. The rate at which students graduated in 2023 fell, returning to a post-2020 low of 83.3 percent. MPR News education reporter Elizabeth Shockman brings us the story.

Coming up at 9 a.m.: Last month, a shootout in Burnsville took the lives of three first responders. It all stemmed from a 911 call reporting domestic abuse. MPR News guest host Catharine Richert isn’t talking about Burnsville case specifically — but how it highlights the complexities of domestic violence cases. Richert and her guests will talk about why a restraining order, or even the death of an abuser, doesn’t mean the violence or the trauma is over.

Minnesota 4-year graduation rates slipped in 2023

The effects of closed schools and isolation due to the pandemic continue to affect Minnesota students. Newly released data released by the state Education Department shows the class of 2023 graduated at a rate of 83.3 percent, down from 83.6 percent for the class of 2022.

Part of that dip was driven by an increase in the “unknown rate” — students who were either incorrectly reported or not reported as enrolled elsewhere, the department said in a statement Thursday accompanying the new data. Those students may not be dropouts.

The overall data, though, shows graduation rates for English language learners and some students of color — among those most disproportionately affected by the pandemic — moving in the wrong direction.

Minneapolis plans community safety center, police precinct under same roof

The city of Minneapolis is moving forward with plans for two new community safety centers along the Lake Street corridor. One is expected to house the new 3rd Precinct police station and would also include social service agencies.

City leaders gathered feedback Wednesday night from residents of the area. Some said putting the police station and social services in the same location is a bad idea; others said it's an idea worth trying.

What else we're watching:

Holiday break: In parts of Minnesota, familiar gas station name is going away. An iconic Minnesota brand is vanishing from parts of the state nearly seven years after it was acquired by another company. Holiday gas stations and convenience stores are being converted to the Circle K brand.

Art Hounds: Folk tales cast in silver. Norwegian folk silver in Duluth. Plus “Voices Unveiled” celebrates the Persian New Year (Nowruz) and “Phantom Loss” tells a story of family, ghosts and generational trauma.

MyPillow, owned by election denier Mike Lindell, formally evicted from Minnesota warehouse. A court ordered the eviction Wednesday of MyPillow from a Shakopee warehouse that it formerly used, but company founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said that it's just a formality because the landlord wants to take the property back.

Listen: Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty on lessons Baltimore can draw from I-35W bridge collapse. Six people are presumed dead after a bridge collapse in Baltimore and there is now an effort to recover their bodies. All six are believed to have been construction workers on the bridge at the time of its collapse.

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats’ VP pick in 2000, dead at 82. Lieberman, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain's running mate eight years later, has died. The Democrat-turned-independent was never shy about veering from the party line.

— Sam Stroozas, MPR News