Happy National Hot Dog Day! To celebrate this momentous occasion, we want to take a minute to remember the students at school that may struggle with paying for meals.

Identifying weaknesses in your transportation safety policies can help maintain safe and healthy school environments from bus stop to school and back.

As schools continue to digest the information in MDE’s 2020-21 Planning Guidance for Minnesota Public Schools document, they may be uncertain about which policies they should review.

Like you, we have spent the last few days looking over MDE guidance for schools as we look toward the upcoming school year in a COVID-19 world.

Recently, the national dialogue regarding education has shifted in the direction of opening schools in some capacity to children this fall.

Today we’d like to highlight several policy entry points that may be especially relevant as we think more deeply about the use of force and relationships with policing institutions.

Over the last month, we’ve been attending virtual board meetings of schools in Minnesota to learn more about how they are responding to education under the current circumstances.

Among the updates that Governor Walz gave last week was the proclamation that all United States flags and Minnesota flags be flown at half-staff at all state and federal buildings on the 19th of each month through 2020.