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		<title>Happy Digital Learning Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LaPlante</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is &#8220;digital learning day,&#8221; a celebration of the possibilities of using online tools to deliver education. Curiously, Minnesota is not one of the 39 states officially observing the day. That&#8217;s too bad, when you consider the possibilities it has to offer students ways to get classes they might not otherwise be able to get, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funding the Child through Local Aid Proposed</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2012/01/26/funding-the-child-through-local-aid-proposed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LaPlante</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A legislative proposal to direct more money towards charter schools is a half a step in the right direction. The idea is that if a child leaves a district school to go to a charter school, some of the locally raised money goes with the student to the charter school. Is send local money to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is School Choice a Free Market Issue?</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2012/01/22/why-is-school-choice-a-free-market-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LaPlante</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With this being National School Choice Week, the question arises: Why is school choice an issue for a free-market think tank? It&#8217;s pretty simple, really: A free market implies some element of widely dispersed decision making. Citizens make most of the decisions that affect their laws, not government officials. That dispersal, practiced imperfectly in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;School Choice Week&#8221; Rally and Movie Events in Minnesota on January 26th!</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2012/01/18/school-choice-week-rally-and-movie-events-in-minnesota-on-january-26th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Show your support for educational equality through more quality options for ALL children. Join us for a press conference and rally at the State Capitol during National School Choice Week to support legislation that will expand school choice in Minnesota. After the rally, visit your legislators and encourage them to support school choice in Minnesota. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College is Costly and Mired in PC: What Should We Do?</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2012/01/17/college-is-costly-and-mired-in-pc-what-should-we-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LaPlante</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the second in a two-part series on a recent conference on education policy.) Janet Beihoffer started the afternoon sessions by saying that instructors, whether K-12 or at the college level, must have high expectations of students. (See here for more.) Political correctness and the university We moved to higher education, with Dick Andzenge, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want Excellence in Education? Cut the Bureaucracy</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2012/01/16/want-excellence-in-education-cut-the-bureaucracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LaPlante</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to over-estimate the importance of public schools. That’s why we need to de-monopolize, de-bureaucratize, and decentralize them. Last week, we advertised a forum, &#8220;restoring excellence to education,&#8221; that an ad hoc group was going to hold in St. Cloud. I went to it, on Saturday. What follows are selected thoughts and gleanings from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Restoring Excellence In Education&#8221; Saturday, January 14th, 8:30am to 4pm at SCSU Brown Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are invited to a free all day event Saturday, January 14th, 8:30am to 4pm at SCSU Brown Hall. Click on the link below for all the details: &#8220;Restoring Excellence In Education&#8221; http://minnesotaeducationreform.com/ &#160; The Restoring Excellence in Education Forum is a grassroots-initiated project devoted to informing and empowering parents on the subject of education. The primary goals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Rethink Regulations of Online Learning</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2012/01/11/time-to-rethink-regulations-of-online-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LaPlante</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there anything new under the sun? Just maybe, when it comes to education. Mitch Pearlstein, president of the Center of the American Experiment, has a new report about online learning. It offers a review of  online learning in Minnesota&#8211;what we&#8217;re doing right, what could be done better, and what we should change. Pearlstein offers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Districts, Unions, and the Taxpayer</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2012/01/04/school-districts-unions-and-the-taxpayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LaPlante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finances]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Legislature removed the requirement that school districts be in place by January 15, it changed the dynamics of negotiations. According to a report in the Star-Tribune, &#8220;More than 200 Minnesota school districts remain without teacher contracts, significantly more than two years ago, and there&#8217;s no longer a state-imposed Jan. 15 deadline to penalize those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union Authorizes Charter Schools: Opportunity, or Trojan Horse?</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2011/12/13/union-authorizes-charter-schools-opportunity-or-trojan-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John LaPlante</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minnesota, one of the leading states in the charter-school idea, how has a new player in charter schools: a teachers union. According to Governing magazine, &#8220;Minnesota Guild of Public Charter Schools became the first charter authorizer in the United States to be sponsored by a teachers union.&#8221; (See also Minnesota Public Radio. Your taxes support [...]]]></description>
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