September 20, 2001 - One of six Minneapolis schools slated to close next year could now survive intact at a new location, and the fate of another school on the list might be delayed. School board members held a public hearing on the revised school closure plan last (Wednesday) night. Despite the changes, many parents remain upset over the potential impact on their children. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire reports...
September 24, 2001 - It might become more difficult for international students to attend college in Minnesota. The FBI says some suspects and material witnesses in the September 11th terrorist attacks appeared to have entered the country on student visas. Some Minnesota schools say that could prompt changes in how the government issues those visas. Minnesota Public Radio's Patty Marsicano has more:
September 24, 2001 - Dr. John Christianson is the director of the Carlson School's Center for the Study of Healthcare Management. Dr. Christianson says he doubts the changes brought by the Attorney General's audit will have much of an effect on the costs of health care. He says there are bigger factors influencing the growth of consumer health care costs.
September 25, 2001 - As our nation faces a new kind of war, much has been made about what has changed in our world. Even our appreciation of history, is evolving. In 1991, then President George Bush signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Hundreds of missile silos and launch facilities in the Midwest were demolished. The START agreement provided that one silo and launch command center be preserved to teach future generations about the Cold War and contemplate the power of nuclear weapons. Mainstreet Radio's Cara Hetland takes us to two sites in South Dakota, a minuteman missile silo and launch command that have a new assignment.
September 25, 2001 - Last summer's special session of the legislature changed the way Minnesotans pay for public schools. The state will now pay almost 80% of the basic public schools costs. The money will come from a new statewide property tax on businesses and cabins as well as from income and sales taxes. The reform was designed to ease the local property tax burden. But many rural school officials say they still aren't getting enough money from the state, and they plan to ask voters to approve additional property taxes to bridge the gap. Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Hemphill reports. { Superintendents say they're glad the state is increasing its spending on schools, but they say it's not enough. Most districts will cut budgets, or ask local voters to approve excess levies, or both.
September 26, 2001 -
September 26, 2001 - Minneapolis School Board had to cut $25 million from their budget and lost another $5 million in school integration.
September 26, 2001 - Poseidon Drowning Detection System comes from Paris and St. Cloud School District has the first one in the country to have one.
October 2, 2001 - 91% of the 3,700 employees of the MnSCU schools decided to strike. Classes will continue.
October 2, 2001 - Scientists from around the world are at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter this week for the 37th Nobel Conference. The conference got underway today with presentations by Nobel laureates and other scholars, who are discussing the contributions science has made over the past century... and what's left to be discovered in the next. They're also celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize. Conference director Tim Robinson says there are five nobel laureates on hand to explain their work.