There are significant differences between the races in education achievement occurring in Minneapolis schools per a report put out by The Education Trust. I thought MPR has done an excellent job covering the story.

A few pieces I took from the report besides seeing education gap:

MN spends more money per student in poorer districts

Decreased higher education spending by 13.5 percent from 2001 to 2003 while state budget increased 6% (What happened here? I thought we were the state dedicated to higher education.)

As a percentage, African Americans are suspended and put into disability programs more than any other race

My off topic rant

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