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• Key lawmakers sell their education funding proposals
  K-12 education funding is 40 percent of the state budget. Gov. Pawlenty and House and Senate lawmakers are considering different education funding proposals in the face of a $4.6 billion deficit.11:00 a.m.
  Guests
  Mindy Greiling: Chair, House K-12 Education Finance Division. (DFL-Roseville)
  Tarryl Clark: Senate Assistant Majority Leader and member of the Education Committee. (DFL-St. Cloud)
  David Hann: Senate Assistant Minority Leader and member of the Education Committee. (R-Eden Prairie). Former School Board member.
  More from MPR
  Obama takes on unions, backs teacher merit pay (03/10/2009)
  Lawmakers spar over education spending in budget forecast (03/04/2009)
  Dozens of education-related bills already filed at the Capitol (01/26/2009)
• Reading every word of the Bible
  David Plotz, editor of the online magazine Slate, read every word of the Old Testament. He chronicles the experience in "Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible."12:00 p.m.
  More from MPR
  Losing our religion? (03/13/2009)
  Barbara Brown Taylor live at the Westminster Town Hall Forum (03/04/2009)
  Resources
  About David Plotz

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