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Star Tribune | February 27, 2018
“This study reaffirms what Minnesotans have always known: Our state is one of the very best places in the country to live, work, and raise a family,” Gov. Mark Dayton said in a news release.
“However, we have more work to do [to] build an even better Minnesota.”
Minnesota ranked No. 7 in health care, which includes access, affordability and quality. It’s No. 13 in education and No. 11 in crime and corrections, which includes low incarceration and violent crime rates.
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WCCO | February 27, 2018
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A wide gap in high school graduation rates between Minnesota’s white and minority students is narrowing.
State education officials said Tuesday that 82.7 percent of high school students graduated in 2017. That’s up 4.3 percentage points since 2012.
But the numbers are better for the state’s non-white students. Sixty-nine percent of minority students in Minnesota graduated last year, up more than 11 percentage points from 2012.
Gov. Mark Dayton says the newest numbers are proof that the state is closing disparities in the public school system. But the Democratic governor insisted Minnesota must do more to close the gap in graduation rates between white and minority students.
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Bemidji Pioneer | February 27, 2018
Bemidji High School's graduation rate hit a new high last year.
Eighty-eight percent of the BHS class of 2017 graduated in four years or the following summer, according to data released Tuesday by the Minnesota Department of Education—the highest mark recorded at the school since at least 2003 and half a percent higher than the goal school district leaders set for themselves in October.
District-wide, a little more than three-quarters of high schoolers graduated on time. That figure includes students at the district's alternative and special education programs.
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Pioneer Press | February 27, 2018
Minnesota is the second best state in the nation, according to a U.S. News & World Report study released Tuesday.
The state that took first: Iowa.
Iowa had better rankings than Minnesota in infrastructure and health care, with Minnesota earning its second place ranking from high marks in quality of life and citizen opportunities.
The study weighs health care and education most heavily, followed by state economy, citizen opportunities, infrastructure, crime and corrections and fiscal stability.
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