In cutting football, St. Cloud and Crookston deliver wake-up call to other Minnesota schools
“If it can happen at St. Cloud, it can happen anywhere,” said Minnesota State Athletics Director Kevin Buisman.
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Minneapolis school leaders will adopt a new strategic plan in April. Here’s how things are shaking out.
What started out earlier this year as a promise to slow things down has evolved into more of a redesign overhaul.
As more colleges experiment with online remediation, some students flourish while many others fall behind
Online programs allow students to plug away at their own speed on problems matched to their individual learning needs — a format that works well for some students. But there are also pitfalls.
The University of Minnesota has some of the highest voter turnout in the country. It’s trying to get it even higher
In 2018, 42.7 percent of 18 to 24-year-old Minnesotans who are U.S. citizens voted in the midterm election, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s the lowest turnout of any age group in Minnesota and is only about two-thirds of statewide turnout for all age groups.
St. Paul set to kickstart a college savings account for every newborn
Research has shown that children from low- and moderate-income families with a college savings of $500 or less are three times more likely to attend college and four times more likely to graduate than those without any college savings.
Seclusion rooms in Minnesota’s public schools: What are they — and how are they governed?
Legally, the rooms must be used only for emergency situations. During the 2016-17 school year, 70 districts reported 7,085 incidents of seclusion that involved 965 students.
How one country with close parallels to the United States has made college free
The experience exposes the risks, rewards of increasingly popular free-tuition programs.
How Minnesota schools are doubling down on anti-vaping efforts
“I just think we’re gonna lose this generation if we don’t deal with it,” said Ann Lindberg-Borgen, chemical health coordinator for the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan Area Schools district.
Campaign to halt charter-school growth is stirring up a heated debate in St. Paul
Supporters of a moratorium say charters are siphoning students and funding from the district and furthering segregation in the schools. Opponents say district schools are failing many students.
Voters largely said ‘yes’ to school referendums. But rejection for some districts means tough decisions ahead.
A handful of districts across the state will be spending the coming months unpacking voters’ rejection of their referendum asks and preparing to make cuts to programming and staffing.
Are Minnetonka Public Schools secretly monitoring students’ social media posts?
The district has a contract with a company, whose name it wouldn’t disclose, to monitor social media, but didn’t appear to inform teachers, students or parents about the program.
Hit hardest by Texas’ illegal special education cap: low-income students of color, study shows
Those who lost special education services were 52 percentage points less likely to graduate high school and 38 points less likely to enroll in college as a result, according to the study.
Two incumbents, two newcomers win at-large St. Paul school board seats
Newcomers Chauntyll Allen and Jessica Kopp won seats, and incumbents Zuki Ellis and Steve Marchese kept theirs in Tuesday’s election.
From trash to taprooms, a rundown of (pretty much) everything on the ballot in the 2019 election
On Tuesday, voters across the Twin Cities will be weighing in on several ballot measures while also choosing mayors and City Council members in several cities.
University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year
But fewer students are paying the full tuition. Is widespread discounting helping more people afford higher education, or just making it more complicated?
Rural school districts seeking building upgrades target a small, yet influential, voter segment: farmers
Some rural districts say they’re seeing the impacts of a tax credit that has helped ease the property tax burden of bond referendums on farmers.
A Q&A with Kelly Holstine: on advancing educational equity for LGBTQ students
After 12 years of teaching, the 2018 Minnesota Teacher of the Year switched to advocacy work to further expand her impact.
By offering naloxone training, U of M Med School hopes to destigmatize addiction for future physicians
“While other medical schools may do trainings,” said Dr. Charles Reznikoff. “I have never heard of a med school anywhere that has incorporated a training for the entire class and provided the kits. That’s where we stand out.”
MEA weekend: Explaining a distinctly Minnesotan tradition
The annual MEA professional development conference for teachers dates back, in some form, to 1861. The state’s teachers union, Education Minnesota, hosts the event.
Why Ed Commissioner Ricker sees National Board Certification as a key tool for elevating teacher performance
Ricker says pursuing certification helped her refine her teaching practice in an invaluable way. “It committed me to that reflective practice that I had, as a teacher, done before, but I hadn’t understood just how powerful it was to intentionally reflect on my work,” she said.
