Minneapolis Public Schools diverted $3 million, including employee and employer health insurance contributions, from an employee health care fund for 10 months, according to a report from independent investigators Tuesday, reports the Minnesota Reformer. The investigator’s report, released three months after district officials placed three “top finance officials on leave,” showed the health fund was at some point made whole, Sahan Journal reports.
The Ely School Board voted unanimously Monday to implement a four-day school week in the fall, Bring Me The News reports. Superintendent Anne Oelke laid out the district’s financial reality during the meeting, explaining that the state’s “per-pupil funding formula has not kept pace with inflation for decades, creating an ever-widening gap between what the state pays districts and what it actually costs to run a school,” the Timberjay reports. Meanwhile, the Rock Ridge district on the Iron Range voted against a four-day week, reports KAXE, and Mountain Iron-Buhl, St. Louis County Schools, Nett Lake and Littlefork-Big Falls adopted four-day weeks last fall.
In 2026 election news, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced Wednesday that she has raised $4.85 million for her campaign since entering the Minnesota governor’s race in January, more money than “all the Republican candidates combined,” the Minnesota Star Tribune reports.
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From “Summer House” to the U.S. House of Representatives, Eveleth native Luke Gulbranson, a cast member of Bravo’s reality television show “Summer House,” announced Wednesday that he is running for Congress against incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District, the Duluth News Tribune reports. Gulbranson, who is seeking the DFL nomination, told the News Tribune, “Yeah, I’ve been on reality TV, but that’s drama for show … What’s happening in D.C. is real drama, with real consequences and the stakes couldn’t be higher. I wake up every morning and there’s this dangerous rhetoric and madness coming out of D.C., and I can’t stand it.“
Time magazine recognized Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in its annual list Wednesday as one of the world’s most influential people for his response to Operation Metro Surge, reports WCCO-TV.
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