Legislature hits budget home stretch with no spare time
| 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 |
Good morning and welcome to Wednesday, June 30.
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.
Elizabeth Shockman has this story, which details one instance of something playing out in many rural, mostly white areas nationally. | |
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The city's Audit Committee (including three city council members, a park board commissioner and two residents members) released a report Monday that says police field training needs better oversight. Their findings show a failure to closely track new officers after they graduated from the police academy.
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.
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| 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? More questions from this phase of the pandemic. How worried should vaccinated people be about coronavirus variants? That depends on a few things — including your personal risk tolerance. | |
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