...Minnesota Rural Education Association said Thursday at a League of Women Voters meeting at the Brainerd Public Library. Vernae Hasbargen, director of legislative action for the Minnesota Rural Education Association, said the state's takeover of education...

...painful or disruptive. Rural schools must be creative to address declining enrollment and budget shortfalls, said Vernae Hasbargen, executive director of the Minnesota Rural Education Association. Hasbargen said a few schools are cutting costs...

...from North and South Dakota," said Tom Tapper, superintendent of Marshall schools, in southwestern Minnesota. Vernae Hasbargen, executive director of the Minnesota Rural Education Association, said it used to be the best science and math...

...share of K-12 funding to 65 percent, from 43 percent. That increase reduced property taxes up to 20 percent. Vernae Hasbargen, executive director of the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Bob Meeks, lobbyist for the Minnesota School...

...tracks projects for the Department of Children, Families and Learning, can't recall a division so pronounced. Vernae Hasbargen, executive director of the Minnesota Rural Education Association, says the disparity demands attention. "Equity...

...advocates. "Now to be told, whoops, we didn't actually give it to you at all, that's a disappointment," said Vernae Hasbargen, a lobbyist with the Minnesota Rural Education Association. "Thousands of teachers lost their jobs this year and...

...Statewide, the average district would see 1 percent less, although the bite is as much as 10 percent in some areas. Vernae Hasbargen, executive director of the Minnesota Rural Education Association, said the pick-me-up for lower revenue districts...