Soucheray: We need a wait-a-minute person on the St. Paul school board twincities.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from twincities.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
St. Paul school board approves its first-ever $1 billion budget twincities.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from twincities.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“It’s a union contract policy of last to hire first to fire, which just reinforces the racial disparity that exists there for teachers of color,” J.J. Hill parent ShaVunda Brown said.
St. Paul Public Schools administrators explained that the budget cuts stemmed from declining enrollment, prekindergarten funding formulas, and fewer kindergarten students than expected. But to parents, teachers, and students, those calculations didn’t account for the value of their school’s only Black teacher, Shevie Brooks.
Valerie Castile, the mother of Philando Castile who was killed by a police officer in 2016, has spent the years since his death advocating for free school meals and eliminating school lunch debt.
AG Ellison: Ethics professor raised $200K for Philando Castile, only paid out $80K
The fundraising campaign was designed to pay off school lunch debt at St. Paul Schools.
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A college professor who set up a hugely successful fundraising campaign to pay off St. Paul Schools student lunch debt following the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile has been accused of paying out less than half the amount raised.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Thursday announced his office is pursuing enforcement action against Pamela Fergus, who introduced a fundraising effort to her diversity and ethics class at Metropolitan State University in 2017, setting an initial goal of $5,000 for the "Philando Feeds The Children" project.