St. Paul plans to close five schools
| Rick Pradhan, Morgan Kerfeld and Steven Bleau stand behind a rollator walker that Bleau designed for their company Telo. The company's rollator walker is designed for younger consumers. Peter Cox | MPR News |
By Peter Cox
Growing up, Steven Bleau saw how multiple sclerosis complicated his dad's mobility. Bleau said he noticed how others with the same condition used mobility devices when he volunteered at the MS Society’s youth camp.
He began tinkering with mobility aids in his design class at the University of Minnesota and began to redesign the rollator walker for younger users.
He brought his redesign to a course at the Carlson School of Management, called entrepreneurship in action. There he joined three other classmates, Morgan Kerfeld, Rick Pradhan and Beth Urbanski.
Now they're launching their own company, Telo, and adding technology to measure physical therapy progress. | |
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By Elizabeth Shockman
The St. Paul school district is planning to close five of its school buildings — Highwood Hills Elementary, John A. Johnson Achievement Plus, Jackson Elementary, LEAP High School and Wellstone Elementary — and change 10 of its school programs as enrollment declines.
Here are five things to know about the "Envision SPPS" plan.
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