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A bill seeking to clarify the role of school resource officers passed through its first committee hearing on Monday as the Minnesota Legislature convened for the start of a new session.
House DFLers are moving forward with a bill that allows school resource officers to use prone restraints on students but requires them to get training. A second hearing is set for Tuesday.
Minnesota’s new universal school meals program has proved more popular than originally expected, with more than 2.2 million additional lunches and breakfasts served in the first month of the school year. Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Education Commissioner Willie Jett served lunch at Edgerton Elementary School in Maplewood Tuesday to promote that fact. Success, however, has come .