Minnesota's black kids doing worse than southern ones

Academic achievement of minority students has been one of the lagging figures in Minnesota's otherwise noteworthy educational system. 

"On state assessments in reading, about 80 percent of your white fourth-graders meet the state standards. For black fourth-graders, it's more like 44 percent, for Latinos, about 33 percent, and somewhere in the mid-50s for both Asian and Native American students,'' Haycock said, according to a news release from the [Minneapolis] Foundation.

Read more of the article here, and check out what the DFL Education Foundation is doing about it, thank to its Achievement Gap Committee, led by former Minneapolis mayor and Congressman Don Fraser is doing here.