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- Minnesota OK’d free menstrual products in schools, but that hasn’t solved the problem
MPR’s Sam Stroozas reports that while Minnesota OK’d free menstrual products in schools, it hasn’t solved the problem of accessibly, leading to what some term as “period poverty.”
- Nicole Lavoi on women's sports boom
MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Nicole LaVoi, director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, on the women’s sports boom in Minnesota.
- In St. Paul schools, gender-neutral bathrooms have proven safer for all students
MPR’s Elizabeth Shockman visits St. Paul’s Johnson Senior High School, where gendered bathrooms have been replaced with installation of single-occupancy, gender-neutral restrooms. Shockman interviews school officials and students to get an idea on how the change benefits students.
- How national politics are changing Minnesota’s 2022 school board elections
MPR’s Elizabeth Shockman reports on how some Minnesota school board races have turned into a philosophical tug of war — a war that involves organized parent groups, teacher unions, networks of political donors, and families who fear school equity efforts are in jeopardy.
- Inside one Minnesota school district’s battle over an equity training program
Many Minnesota school districts are launching equity programs in an attempt to correct Minnesota’s well-documented and long-standing racial inequalities. But in numerous places, groups of parents, and sometimes students, are combating those programs. Education reporter Elizabeth Shockman followed just such a battle over SEED program in the rural, mostly white district of Pequot Lakes in north-central Minnesota.
- 'It made my heart broke': Marshall first-graders, parents grieve loss of classmate to COVID-19
MPR’s Hannah Yang reports on how school community members have grieved the loss of a first grader at Park Side Elementary School in Marshall. The student died from complications due to COVID-19. Yang explores how families have navigated the loss and helped their children try to make sense of it.
- APM Reports: Black at Mizzou - Confronting race on campus
On this MPR News Presents program, an APM Reports documentary titled "Black at Mizzou: Confronting race on campus," looks beyond news of protests against rascism at University of Missouri, and highlights a thriving campus-within-a-campus that Black students have built over decades to make the university a more welcoming place.
- APM Reports: Covid on Campus
On this MPR News Presents program, an APM Reports documentary titled "Covid on Campus." The coronavirus pandemic represents the greatest challenge to American higher education in decades. Some small regional colleges that were already struggling won’t survive. Other schools, large and small, are rethinking how to offer an education while keeping people safe.
- Dai Thao remembers Marny Xiong
Morning Edition’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Dai Thao, who remembers Marny Xiong, St. Paul school board chair, who died of COVID-19 at the age of 31. She was a champion for racial justice and equity.
- APM Reports: Under a Watchful Eye
MPR News Presents airs “Under a Watchful Eye,” an APM Reports & The Hechinger Report documentary that looks at colleges using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost.