MPR News with Angela Davis

The state of education in Minnesota in 2019

Kindergarten teacher Matt Proulx teaches pronunciation of Spanish vowels.
Kindergarten teacher Matt Proulx teaches pronunciation of Spanish vowels to his Spanish-immersion students inside of his classroom at Paul and Sheila Wellstone Elementary School in St. Paul on Wednesday, April 24.
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MPR News education reporter Elizabeth Shockman spent her year in classrooms across the state.

Some of her most memorable stories from 2019 include a story about how racism affects student learning, how libraries build community and how one teacher turned a President Trump rally into a civics class.

She joined the program to talk about those stories and share what she wants to focus on in 2020.