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MnEEP, along with numerous student representatives and biliteracy organizations from Minnesota, gathered with educators and…

Dear Supporters,  Join us for a forum with researchers, advocates, and students from the nonprofit…

Since its creation on Jan. 1, 2018, the Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board…

By Adrienne Benjamin (Amikogaabawiikwe) I recently was selected as one of 50 “Young Cultural Innovators”…

In October, I attended my first WIDA Conference. Minnesota is a WIDA member state, meaning Minnesota schools…

Education leaders, community members, and students comprise the Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (REEEN) to inform important equity planning in Greater Minnesota. We have learned a lot from these partnerships and from our role in building the capacity of leaders and communities to use an equity lens in their equity planning, leading, and systems change work. 

Here are some important lessons we have learned, and how we can continue to use them to build race equity in education:

The newly elected will soon begin the work of governing; setting policy to direct the actions of school districts, colleges, and departments of education. They will determine how to collect and appropriate taxes for the largest activity of our public institutions – the education of students in early through post-secondary education. But no matter the outcome, one thing will remain constant in the education of our young people: race equity still matters.

Help us reach our match challenge by May 2019! Every new dollar raised for our rural equity work (Mille Lacs region and Multilingual Learner communities) gets matched dollar for dollar by the Bremer Foundation.