The Gophers football team will host two open practices this spring.

Members of Dinkytown Athletes, the NIL collective, can attend practice on March 25, while the general public can visit on April 15. Both practices are scheduled to start at 4:15 p.m. and will be held at the indoor practice facility at Athletes Village.

Minnesota, which starts practice on March 20, is not expected to host a traditional spring game again this year. Poor weather and the pandemic canceled previous U spring games, and it has been a trend across college football to stop hosting these open events.

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I have a confession to make. I really wasn’t looking forward to the touring production of “Dear Evan Hansen” that’s landed at St. Paul’s Ordway Music Theater for the week.

The last time a tour came through presenting this winner of the 2017 “Best Musical” Tony, I found the show exasperating when not infuriating. Here was a musical comedy built upon a foundation of mental illness and suicide that came off as disrespectful to anyone who’s lived with either. And the cloying, sound-alike songs made it that much more difficult to endure.

So imagine my surprise when the Crossroads Live production currently on the Ordway boards resulted in my totally rethinking this musical. Thanks to a committed cast – anchored by the invariably excellent Michael Fabisch as the title character – and a directorial tandem that clearly recognized the musical’s shortcomings and set out to remedy them, I came away feeling this show to be an unqualified success.

Sure, there gets to be a certain sameness about the songs, almost all of them folk-rock ballads driven by an acoustic guitar or piano and rumbling drums, occasionally underlining a sad mood with a suitably melancholy cello. But this cast sings them with such passionate power as to disarm any cynicism.

And speaking of cynicism, “Dear Evan Hansen” can carry plenty of its own if not crafted with a compassionate touch. For here is the story of Evan, a bullied high school junior with severe social anxiety and a crush on that girl in the jazz band. His aversion to conflict leads him to lie when confronted with questions about why that girl’s older brother had a note addressed to our protagonist on him when he took his life. Evan’s stories of an imaginary friendship bring salve to the surviving family, but end up at the center of a viral internet hoax run amok.

Michael Fabisch and Bre Cade in the North American touring production of “Dear Evan Hansen.” (Evan Zimmerman / MurphyMade)

Perhaps Tony voters saw it as the first Broadway musical to address the internet’s place in modern life, for good and ill, especially among teenagers. But it’s to this production’s credit that it cuts through the clamor emanating from our devices and recognizes face-to-face dialogue as where the really important stuff happens.

It’s clear that directors Danny Sharron and Mark Myars get that, and Myars has tweaked Danny Mefford’s original Broadway choreography just enough to raise the emotional stakes and emphasize each character’s humanity. A lived-in feel comes through in both the totally believable conversations authored by Steve Levenson and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s dripping-with-sincerity songs.

And the key reason is Michael Fabisch. He and the directors have chosen to bring as much genuineness as possible to Evan’s mental illness, from his almost incomprehensibly rapid-fire monologues to a silent onstage anxiety attack that created a hear-a-pin-drop moment at the Ordway Tuesday. And Fabisch displays a deep understanding of the style of from-the-heart acoustic pop Pasek and Paul have created, bringing intimacy to each song with his emotive tenor.

But everyone in the eight-member cast has created a convincing character, each seizing upon song as a conduit for their internal conflicts. And kudos to music director Michael Hopewell and the eight-piece band for suffusing the score with so much energy. They help make this production so much better than I thought it had a right to be.

‘Dear Evan Hansen’

When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1:30 and 7 p.m. Sunday

Where: Ordway Music Theater, 345 Washington St., St. Paul

Tickets: $160-$45, available at 651-224-4222 or ordway.org

Capsule: A problematic musical gets a disarmingly sincere interpretation.

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Representative Brad Buckley, Republican House Public Education Committee chair and author of the chamber’s voucher proposal, opened the hearing on House Bill 3 Tuesday morning, stating: “My intent is to provide families with the opportunity to choose the best possible educational setting for their child, and I believe House Bill 3 provides this choice while prioritizing Texas’ most high needs and vulnerable students.” 

After hearing testimony for the next 23 hours—more than 300 registered to speak—the committee left the bill pending without an immediate vote. The bill’s numerous opponents who testified often echoed Democratic Representative James Talarico’s statement that, “There is a disconnect between the rhetoric and what the bill actually says.” 

HB 3 is a universal voucher program that would provide an estimated $10,330 to students (and more for those with disabilities) who attend private schools and $2,000 for homeschooled students in the program. The amount for private school students is set at 85 percent of the average local and state funding public schools receive per student statewide; it is estimated to grow to $10,889 by 2030 in the bill’s fiscal note. Lawmakers have initially set aside $1 billion for the program for 2027, while the Legislative Budget Board estimates the program’s net cost at nearly $4 billion by 2030. 

Proponents of the bill touted that HB 3 prioritizes low-income students and students with disabilities.  If applicants exceed capacity, the bill lays out a priority order favoring kids with disabilities and in households at or below 200 or 500 percent of the federal poverty line. Despite that language, critics argued there are barriers for such families. 

“Prioritization in a lot of states is window dressing because what matters is who actually gets the funds; who actually gets admitted; or who’s already been admitted,” Talarico said. 

Democratic Representative Harold Dutton argued high tuition rates made private schools cost-prohibitive to low-income students, citing an average private school tuition of around $27,000 in the Houston area. “If you get $10,000, you’re still $17,000 short. And for most of these families that are poor families, that creates, you know, a mirage that they can now access it.”

Representatives of the Texas Private Schools Association and the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops spoke of financial assistance that private schools could offer to some families.

Talarico called for a hard cap on income for eligible families and a provision that would give current public school students priority over current private school students to be added to the bill. “What we’re talking about is we are sending our limited, precious taxpayer dollars to the wealthiest families in the state who are already sending their kids to private school. And if you say that’s not the purpose, then put it in your bill.”

Democratic Representative Diego Bernal recommended adding a mandate for private schools to waive the difference between the tuition and the voucher amount for low-income applicants. 

“That would be an inappropriate regulation into the private school and an inappropriate intervention into that process with the parent,” responded Jennifer Allmon, executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops. 

Matthew Ladner, a senior policy adviser with the right-wing Heritage Foundation, testified that “private schools wouldn’t participate” if that mandate was included in the proposal. 

Voucher opponents expressed concerns that it would mostly be current private school students who would ultimately take advantage of the program. Josh Cowen, a professor of education policy at Michigan State University, testified that only a quarter of voucher program participants nationwide came from public schools. The bill’s fiscal note estimates that of 350,000 students currently attending  private schools statewide, “50.0 percent would apply to participate in the program in the first year, increasing five percent each subsequent year.” 

HB 3’s per-student funding formula, along with details of its student prioritization and some provisions related to kids with disabilities, distinguish it from its counterpart Senate Bill 2, which the Senate has already passed.

Under HB 3, students with disabilities in private school could receive up to $30,000 a year—but private schools do not have to offer special education services as public schools are required to under federal special education laws, Steven Aleman, a policy specialist with Disability Rights Texas, said. “There is no state law or federal law for that matter that requires an IEP [Individualized Education Program for students with disabilities] be developed by a private school for a student with a disability. The rights that a student gets pursuant to IDEA [the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act],  you forgo those rights when you go to a private school.”

Laura Colangelo, executive director of the Texas Private Schools Association testified that 19 percent of private school students currently enrolled have “special needs” and that services students can receive are dependent on the student’s contract with the private school. 

Others testified that private schools did not admit or accommodate the needs of students with disabilities. “My name is Phil Lee, sixth grade, and I use a power walker because I have cerebral palsy,” a student testified. “My mom has tried and looked at private schools for me, but they turned me away because I’m in a wheelchair.”

Dr. Liz Piñon, a mother of kids with disabilities and education associate with the pro-public ed Intercultural Development Research Association testified, “We’ve explored the possibility of private schools all over DFW, but the outcome was always the same. As soon as they learned about our children’s disabilities, the doors were closed.”

“If we truly want to support students with disabilities, we must strengthen, not abandon, our public schools instead of draining money from our public schools. Why not fix our system, fully fund our special ed schools, reduce those class sizes, hire and train more special ed teachers and expand access to transition programs to prepare students for the life after high school?” Piñon said. 

Criticism of the bill came from both sides of the political aisle, with conservatives denouncing the program’s high cost to taxpayers. “I’m coming to you as a Texas retired teacher and as a conservative from Harris County. I’m a Republican precinct lead, and I wanted to remind you to please represent your Texas constituents. … My input for you today is to kill this bill,” Mary Ann Jackson said.

Mary Lowe, who testified as a member of the conservative public education group Families Engaged, said the debate around vouchers was “ripping the party apart.” She added, “This bill has an open-ended check for the taxpayer.”

Last week, the education committee heard testimony on House Bill 2, what Buckley has called “a historic school funding bill.” While applauding the bill’s investment in special education funding, school district leaders and teachers criticized the bill for insufficient increases to the state’s basic allotment and to teacher pay.

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