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Copy shortlink: After the pandemic pushed St. Paul classrooms to distance learning, some students found themselves without a set place to work. Instead of writing essays at a desk, they had to learn long division in their beds or take tests on a coffee table. So in early November, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter approached the Minnesota Tool Library about whether the nonprofit could start a desk-building project for local students. Leaders at the Tool Library, which supplies tools, trainings and workspaces to local residents, said yes. With a CARES Act Grant of about $11,...

Minnesota Tool Library builds about 600 desks for students learning at home Peter Warren, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/Photos by DAVID JOLES • david.joles@startribune.com/Star Tribune/TNS Kate Hersey, Minnesota Tool Library executive director, with some of the 600 desks for students made at the Minnesota Tool Library’s two branches, as well as by volunteers at their homes and seen Monday at the St. Paul branch. After the pandemic pushed St. Paul classrooms to distance learning, some students found themselves without a set place to work. Instead of writing essa...