Minnesota can add ethnic studies standard in schools, judge rulesThe Minnesota Department of Education may include an ethnic studies component in its revised social studies standards, after a ruling Tuesday settled a long-running debate over whether the agency has the authority to do so. But there’s a caveat. Chief Judge Jenny Starr co-signed the decision by Administrative Law Judge Eric Lipman, who ruled on Tuesday that MDE may adopt the new ethnic studies standard but must also rewrite what he called an “impermissibly vague” rule. The Education Department “has the statutory authority to adop…