Curt Rock, an elementary teacher in Foley Public Schools who serves on the Minnesota Teacher Evaluation Working Group, is providing regular updates on the progress for MREA. The Working Group is charged with developing a new evaluation system for Minnesota teachers, as mandated by the legislature as part of a law passed during the 2011 special session. The group, which … Read More
Grading Criteria Identified
Curt Rock, an elementary teacher in Foley Public Schools who serves on the Minnesota Teacher Evaluation Working Group, is providing regular updates on the progress for MREA. The Working Group is charged with developing a new evaluation system for Minnesota teachers, as mandated by the legislature as part of a law passed during the 2011 special session. The group first … Read More
Committee Reconvenes
Jerry Ness, superintendent of Fergus Falls Public Schools, Chris Mills, superintendent of Stephen/Argyle Central, and Earl Athman, business manager of the Pierz School District, are MREA members serving on the Minnesota Department of Education’s Education Finance Working Group. They recently provided an update on the progress for MREA. The group reconvened on June 25. It evaluated the progress legislative session … Read More
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46 Incumbents Won’t Run
Filing for Minnesota’s 201 state House and Senate seats closed on June 5. All but four of the seats have candidates from at least two major political parties. Incumbents without challengers include: Terry Morrow (House DFL) Joe Hoppe (House GOP) Tony Cornish (House GOP) Kathy Sheran (Senate DFL) When the retirement dust finally settled, a total of 46 incumbents did not file … Read More
Monday Night Football at the Capitol
It appears the Vikings’ stadium debate will come to a vote sometime today in the House and possibly the Senate. The House will take up the bill first and if it passes, the Senate will have a chance to vote on it. Passage of the bill is uncertain at this time as GOP leaders are upset with Governor Dayton’s veto … Read More
Sessions Ends
After passing the conference committee report on the Vikings stadium, the House adjourned sine die at 4:20am on Thursday, May 10. They were still in session day 118 given that they began their session on Wednesday the 9th and a “legislative day” is defined between the hours of 7am to 7am. The Senate came into session at 9am Thursday morning, … Read More
Closing out the 2012 Session
The legislature’s self imposed April 30th deadline to adjourn sine die (Latin for we’re out of here for good this time!) is upon us, and they still have not passed a bonding bill, which is the traditional signature bill of an even numbered year session. The Vikings’ stadium is still in the mix as is a bill to freeze corporate … Read More
Legislature returns from break
The legislature returns to St. Paul after a ten day extended break. They are hoping to wrap up their work by the end of April, which gives them two weeks to pass a few major bills, including a major capital improvement bill. Under the constitution, they can meet as late as May 21, but most believe they are ready to … Read More
2012 session wrapping up
The legislature was busy last week, including work on a handful of omnibus bills that include more policy than finance adjustments. Governor Dayton and legislative leaders are close on negotiating a series of bills dealing with business tax relief, HHS spending (a result of $73 million in HMO refunds) and education policy. The bonding bill is still in the mix … Read More