Walz emergency powers remain as GOP backs away

Educator tells GOP how schools have been impacted

The conversation./// with coronavirus cases and deaths soaring to record levels in minnesota, republican lawmakers backed down thursday fr another attempt to strip governor tim walz of the emergency powers he has used to respond to the pandemic.

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He spoke specifically about how the governor's emergency powers and executive orders are being felt in the school system..

We help kids walk, we provide physical therapy, occupational .

We supply adaptive equipment so kids can read and learn in a school environment.

The order this spring places those kids in their homes.

We were not allowed to provide those services to their homes and we were not allowed to provide those services to those kids in their homes lawmakers from both parties acknowledged as they gathered for the sixth special session of the