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Minnesota sees rise in reports of kids left alone at day care
Stories of kids left unsupervised by Minnesota child-care providers appear nearly every week in state investigative reports. Child-care workers in Rochester and Montrose left 2-year-olds unsupervised on playgrounds, according to documents posted in mid-July. The week before, a memo described a 3-year-old slipping through a St. Paul center's unlocked gate and walking onto University Avenue. Reports published earlier this month chronicled how a toddler and preschooler were briefly left alone in Brooklyn Park and Chaska classrooms.
St. Paul adds to cultural offerings with plans for Afrocentric school
A new Afrocentric learning program is in the works at St. Paul Public Schools, and its seeds are on display at LEAP High School on the city’s East Side. There, the district is hosting Freedom School, a six-week summer literacy program rooted in the civil rights movement and where mornings begin with dance and chants — even some “Hallelujahs!” On Thursday, Jasmine Epps-Flowers, a former LEAP High teacher, read a poem reminding students of the power of words in fighting hate and suffering. It ended with the simple phrase: “Poetry is what I use to say I love you.”
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