February 7, 2015
Group Recommends Merging TDE and Q Comp
Recommendations from a state work group last week call the Minnesota to combine the Teacher…
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February 5, 2015
MREA Budget Webinar Recording Now Available
MREA hosted a virtual meeting today to review Governor Dayton's budget proposal released last week. MREA Director of…
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February 1, 2015
Governor's Plan Budget Battle Lines Being Drawn
By Sam Walseth, MREA Director of Legislative Affairs Governor Mark Dayton’s release of his 2016-17…
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January 28, 2015
Governor Releases Education Plan
Governor Dayton released his proposed budget for the FY 16-17 biennium that would invest $343…
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January 8, 2015
Priorities Outlined in First Bills Introduced in Minnesota Senate, House
The Minnesota Legislature convened this week and is moving beyond the ceremonial nods to get…
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January 8, 2015
MREA Testifies Before Senate E-12 on Key Issues
The newly merged Senate E-12 & Policy committee met last Thursday and took testimony from…
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January 6, 2015
Rural Education Well Represented on State Work Groups
by Fred Nolan, MREA Executive Director The 2014 legislature called for two Working Groups and…
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November 30, 2013
Legislative Platform Adopted at Annual Meeting
By Sam Walseth, Director of Legislative Affairs After months of gathering input and feedback from…
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November 24, 2013
What will Minnesota do to increase the teacher supply?
By Vernae Hasbargen, MREA Legislative Consultant Groups like the Business Partnership and the Chamber of…
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November 3, 2013
Increasing the Teacher Supply
By Vernae Hasbargen During the two years Republicans controlled the legislature, business groups pushed hard…
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November 3, 2013
Teacher Development and Evaluation Workshops Planned
"Phenomenal compared to MDE’s sessions last year.” “Seeing Ed Minnesota and MSBA presenting together with…
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October 20, 2013
MREA Seeks Platform Approval at Conference
Thank you to MREA members who contributed to the platform formation at the Area Meetings…
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