When parents or students say a school “saved their life,” I pay attention. Recently I heard this phrase often at several Minnesota charter public schools that I visited. Here are a few of those stories. Together these charter schools produce billions of dollars in benefits to individuals and Minnesota.

Paladin Career & Technical High School is in Coon Rapids. Heidi Meade feared her son, Casey, might take his life before enrolling there. She said: “The school saved him and many others. That school is changing the world.”

  
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