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CROOKSTON—Two Minnesota residents face the potential of 20 years in prison after being charged with felony drug possession within a city block of a school Tuesday. Elaine Magdeline Sundquist, 26, Crookston, and Erick Wesley Olson, 33, Red Lake Falls, Minn., were charged with possession of a controlled substance in a prohibited zone, a felony charge, after being found with methamphetamine within a block of Washington Elementary School in Crookston. Sundquist has also been charged with driving while impaired, a misdemeanor. According to the c...
“To the brook! To the brook!” the three girls chanted in Finnish as they skipped through the forest. Within a few minutes, the other kindergartners had joined them in the fern-covered gully. As their teacher Kaija Pelo and I stood on a hill observing the children at play below us, two boys in baseball caps poked sticks into the brook (Pelo said they were “fishing”) while other children teetered across a fallen pine tree, which served as a natural bridge over the running water. Most kindergartners, though, appeared to be doing nothing except...
“Here’s the high school. It’s so huge, it takes a minute just to drive by,” says John Diamond as we pass a giant brick Victorian building surrounded by a lush green lawn. We’re on a tour of Evanston, Ill., which borders Chicago, runs along Lake Michigan, and is home to Northwestern University. In some ways, Evanston is an American idyll. People move here and stay, because it’s a diverse, relatively affluent, and well-read community. Two-thirds of its residents have library cards. Yet, to the dismay of the progressive citizenry, Evanston ed...
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The ability to overrule teacher contracts, not more money, is what New Jersey needs to improve its struggling poorer school districts, Republican Gov. Chris Christie's administration argued to the state's highest court Thursday. The governor wants the Supreme Court to allow the state to override teacher contract rules in 31 mostly urban, poorer districts that the administration says "serve as impediments to a thorough and efficient education." Christie also wants the high court to freeze the current level of funding to the...
Vine Myron Drapeau Sr. November 23, 1942 - Wednesday, September 14, 2016 Service Information Eastman Hall-Flandreau, South Dakota Monday, September 19, 2016 10:00 A.M. Visitation Information Eastman Hall-Flandreau, South Dakota Thurs, Fri., Sat & Sun beginning at 7:00 P.M. Vine Myron Drapeau Sr., "Wawokiye Waste Wicasa" (God Helping Man), age 73, of Flandreau, South Dakota Journeyed to the Spirit World on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at The Avera Hospital in Flandreau. He was born on November...
Everyone remembers a favorite teacher – someone who noticed potential the potential of students, challenged them, or inspired them to dream. With rising class sizes and high rates of teacher turnover, students may be finding it harder now to build such relationships. In response, a growing number of educators and policymakers are looking to address teacher shortages. Researchers at the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), a Palo Alto, Calif.-based think tank, concluded that most policymakers are tackling the wrong end of the problem: Don't just e...
Plans by Baltimore County to speed the installation of air conditioning at public schools got a boost from a key state panel on Thursday. The state's Interagency Commission on School Construction voted unanimously to award a waiver to the county that will keep the plan on track. "We are pleased they have the confidence in our plan," County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said Thursday. "We can start the planning process now." http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-school-ac-waiver-20160915-story.html...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two students at separate schools have filed complaints with the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana saying they were told they would be punished for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance, an act protected as free speech. ACLU Director Marjorie Esman said the organization had received two complaints in 24 hours. "If it's happening in two parts of the state that we know about, it's probably happening in more than that, and people just haven't reported it to us," she said Thursday. http://www.chron....
From the first day of kindergarten to graduation from high school, schools in the United States invest nearly $139,000 for the average student’s education. That’s far less than some other developed countries. That finding comes from a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that explores education systems in 46 nations, including the United States, to better understand what factors influence children’s access to the classroom. The United States ranks 12th among the nations in terms of the total amount educa...
Weight-related discrimination in sixth grade can lead to emotional problems by the end of middle school, according to an analysis of data from a longitudinal study. Among more than 5,000 youths (52% girls), one-third reported at least one weight-related discriminatory experience by seventh grade, and it was that disrespectful and exclusionary behavior, rather than body mass index, that predicted body dissatisfaction, social anxiety, and loneliness by eighth grade, reported Jaana Juvonen, PhD, at the University of California Los Angeles, and...
Senate Republicans have endured the indignities of minority status for all but two of the past 44 years, but they say this is their year. The formula is simple: The DFL controls six Senate districts that Mitt Romney won in his failed 2012 presidential campaign. Flip those, and they are in the majority. “We think we’re going to win,” said Minority Leader David Hann, R-Eden Prairie. http://www.startribune.com/could-minnesota-senate-go-republican-a-few-districts-are-key/393637651/...
Fair warning to any U.S. Bank employees looking to capitalize on competitor Wells Fargo’s recently tarnished reputation: Don’t. Or at least don’t use an orange flier. “So help me God, if I find a branch in one market with an orange flier that says if you bank at Wells come to U.S. Bank, they’re going to be let go,” said U.S. Bank CEO Richard Davis, at an investor’s event in New York on Thursday. “That’s not the way we do business. It will come to us if we’ve earned it.” http://www.startribune.com/u-s-bank-ceo-employees-shoul...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign says the Republican presidential candidate now believes President Barack Obama was born in the United States, but the Republican nominee has yet to personally repudiate his past promotion of the false premise that Obama was not. Meanwhile, as Trump's campaign sought to put that false conspiracy theory to rest, it stoked another: saying the "ugly incident" known as the birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton. There is no evidence that is true. "She is the one that started it, and she was unable or i...
MILAN, Minn. - In this tiny western Minnesota town, Michael Elias can't picture a return to his tropical birthplace in the western Pacific. Natives of Micronesia such as Elias have flocked to this "Little Norway" on the prairie since 2000. Now, more than half the population of about 400 is Micronesian, an occasionally rocky transformation that some residents say reinvigorated the town. "The Micronesians now belong to Milan, and Milan belongs to them," said Mayor Ron Anderson. http://www.startribune.com/in-tiny-milan-minn-a-t...
Anne K. McKeig took the state’s judicial oath Thursday, becoming the first American Indian jurist to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court after a swearing-in ceremony where friends and colleagues praised her wit, generosity and commitment to the welfare of children. “We as a community have an obligation to work on behalf of all children, for it truly takes a village to raise a child,” McKeig said. “I will do my very best to serve all Minnesotans. I also promise to never take myself too seriously, nor forget who I am or where I came from....
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump put new details on a much scaled-back tax plan on Thursday, one that is projected to cost the federal government less money but also to deliver fewer benefits to taxpayers than Trump’s original proposal. Trump’s economic team estimated that the complete tax plan, combined with rollbacks to some federal regulations and new initiatives to open up more public and private lands for oil and gas drilling, would deliver 3.5 percent growth per year for the next decade and produce 25 million new jobs. The...
If the idea behind U.S. policy in the early 20th century was either to help Indians or to help white settlers, the easiest way of accomplishing this would’ve been to grant a simple title to the land to either group and let each do what they wanted. But, “had the land been given directly to Indians or whites, what role would there have been for the Office of Indian Affairs?” Terry Anderson, author of “Sovereign Nations or Reservations?”, asks pointedly. Although the Dawes Act was ostensibly implemented with the idea of making Indians independe...
HERTEL - The way the St. Croix Chippewa Tribal Council operates in secrecy has gone largely unnoticed by federal watchdogs, but not by tribal members who have complained loudly about the practice for decades. In election after election, reform candidates have called for more openness from the Tribal Council, including opening council meetings to the general membership and making the northwestern Wisconsin tribe’s financial and deliberation records available for inspection. Reformers occasionally oust a longtime council member but, so far, h...
OSCEOLA, Iowa —A girls high school basketball team poster is causing a stir in southern Iowa. The poster features the 2016 Clarke basketball team in headdresses and war paint. A viewer told KCCI none of the girls is Native American, and many in the community find the poster racially insensitive. http://www.kcci.com/news/high-school-basketball-poster-draws-claims-of-racism/41680318...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The head of a Texas company building the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline told employees Tuesday that it is committed to the project despite strong opposition and a federal order to voluntarily halt construction near an American Indian reservation in North Dakota. The memo to employees, which was also released to some media outlets, is the first time in months the company has provided significant details of the four-state, 1,172-mile (1886-km) project. It came the same day as a planned "day of action" in cities a...
NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) — Tribal flags, horses, tents, hand-built shelters and teepees dominate one of the biggest, newest communities in North Dakota, built in a valley on federal land near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers. It's a semi-permanent, sprawling gathering with a new school for dozens of children and an increasingly organized system to deliver water and meals to the hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from tribes across North America who've joined the Standing Rock Sioux in t...
MANDAN, N.D. — After back-to-back days of arrests connected to the Dakota Access Pipeline protest, Thursday, Sept. 15, was quiet for Morton County law enforcement but a busy day for the court as prosecutors filed charges against additional protesters. Seven individuals are charged with reckless endangerment or conspiracy to commit reckless endangerment stemming from Tuesday and Wednesday incidents involving people who attached themselves to construction equipment. The Class C felony charges, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $...
Tribal members across the country are rallying in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux in their fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. For many in Arizona the conflict hits home. Several tribes in Arizona have stood up to industry to protect the lands they consider sacred — places like the San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff, the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers near Grand Canyon and Oak Flat east of Phoenix. Hopi artist Ronald Lewis Laban said he sees it as his duty to protect the earth and what’s sacred. htt...
Erica Ryan-Gagne is usually busy taking care of customers at the nail salon she owns in the Indigenous village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii Now, she's marching on the front lines of an oil pipeline protest in North Dakota. The Haida business woman is one of thousands of people from across North America who have converged at the Standing Rock protest camp. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/standing-rock-crude-oil-pipeline-protest-in-north-dakota-draws-haida-help-1.3762429...
Last Thursday, an arrest warrant was issued under the header "North Dakota versus Amy Goodman." The charge was for criminal trespass. The actual crime? Journalism. We went to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to cover the growing opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Global attention has become focused on the struggle since Labour Day weekend, after pipeline guards unleashed attack dogs and pepper spray on Native American protesters. On that Saturday, at least six bulldozers were carving up the land along the pipeline route, where...
