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Sarah Lahm

BC Guest Commentator Sarah Lahm is a Minneapolis-based writer and researcher. Her work has appeared in outlets such as The Progressive, where she writes the Midwest Dispatch column and contributes pieces to the Public Schools Advocate project. Previously, she taught composition and literature courses to college students before pausing to travel the back roads of Minnesota in a restored 1969 International school bus.

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Why Minnesota Is Joining Nationwide Trend for Community Schools

By Sarah Lahm Guest Commentator

In contrast to charter schools and other market-based approaches to school improvement, full-service community schools offer a holistic approach to education that is about lifting up students and the communities they live in, rather than pitting schools against one another in the interest of greater choice and competition.

Minnesota is widely known as the land of 10,000 lakes - actually, there are more than 10,000. But the state, which was the first in the…

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