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		<title>School funding will trigger numerous battles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the recent November economic forecast, which revealed that a $1.3 billion budget surplus is headed to Minnesota’s schools to pay down the state’s $2 billion-plus K-12 aid shift, lawmakers could simply tout the good news and pass a budget for the next two years that leaves the state’s school funding structure in the same shape it’s been in for more than a decade. ]]></description>
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		<title>Petersen ed bill: LIFO must go</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year the House Republican majority introduced wide-ranging and comprehensive proposals to overhaul the teaching profession and diminish the power of teachers unions to set education policy.]]></description>
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		<title>GOP gets half a loaf on K-12 priorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With newly installed Republican majorities in the House and Senate, K-12 education reform became the subject of intense debate this year, a struggle that began in the regular session and continued until just hours before the Legislature convened to pass the package of budget bills that ended the shutdown in July.]]></description>
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		<title>Harrington gets nod from teachers union in SD 67 contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Demko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Saint Paul Federation of Teachers is backing former St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington in the crowded Senate District 67 contest. The union's political committee voted to support Harrington to replace retiring state Sen. Mee Moua after screening the candidates.

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