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Here's some of what Walz has done as governor and how it might connect to the campaign now that he's on the Democratic Party ticket: REMOVING ABORTION RESTRICTIONS Walz signed legislation codifying abortion rights, repealing essentially all the state's restrictions and adding protections for patients who travel from states where abortion is ...
Under Walz's watch, Minnesota became the 23rd state to legalize recreational marijuana for adults. But Minnesota still doesn't have a functioning legal marketplace. But Minnesota still doesn't ...
Many states in the US have outlawed practices that single out students who have school lunch debt. [5] [4] Webster was part of the Legal Services Advocacy Project team that wrote the legislation, [8] signed by Governor Tim Walz in 2023, that made Minnesota the third state to offer free breakfast and lunch to all public school students. [9]
As governor, Walz has taken steps to increase access to higher education across racial groups, including offering tuition-free enrollment at state colleges for residents who are members of a ...
Should all school kids get free meals — regardless of income? Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) selection as Vice President Harris’s running mate has brought that once-peripheral policy issue ...
Walz hugged by children after signing universal free school meals to law. After schools closed in 2020 due to COVID-19, Walz was cautious about reopening them, which aligned closely with the concerns of teachers, who were hesitant to return to in-person learning due to fear of contracting COVID-19. [193]
With federal support uncertain and eventually ending, some states began using their own funds for an extension of pandemic-era free universal school lunches. In 2021, California became the first state to have a universal school meal program for the state's public school students, followed shortly by Maine, in time for the 2021-2022 school year ...
Rejecting Republican pleas that the state budget surplus be used to cut taxes, Democrats funded free school meals for children, free tuition at public colleges for students in families earning ...