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.
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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.
The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones
Anxious about diversity and their bottom lines, more schools offer money to the middle.
Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students
Fewer than one in five students who go part time will graduate within even eight years.
Secure entrances, ID scanners and bullet-resistant film: How Minnesota schools are spending $25 million in state safety grants
The demand from schools far exceeded the amount of grant funding available.
When it comes to getting kids to school, is there a better way?
Combating the chaos of pick-up and drop-off.
Video attacking equity efforts inflames racial controversy in Eastern Carver Co. Schools
The equity work seeks to address growing racial tensions in the district, which serves the cities of Carver, Chanhassen, Chaska and Victoria.
More Minnesota students are getting extra time to take tests — especially in wealthy school districts
Critics say “504 plans” can be misused to give students who are already at an advantage an even greater edge on things like standardized tests.
Data show significant disparities in ‘rigorous course taking’ among Minnesota high school students
Of all four advanced course categories, students of color are best represented in International Baccalaureate courses.
St. Paul school board race begins to take shape at first candidate forum
While the candidates offered fairly uniform responses to several questions — such as on the need for greater oversight of the facilities budget — other questions revealed substantial differences.
This Roseville-based nonprofit helps outfit classrooms so low-income students have access to basic supplies
Kids In Need Minnesota operates a school supply store out of a warehouse in Roseville that’s filled with supplies donated by businesses.
Twin Cities districts scrambling to find more teachers as school start looms
If need be, schools will deploy backup plans that range from expanding class sizes to employing long-term substitute teachers to help bridge critical gaps in staffing.
Push to increase ‘educational attainment’ in Minnesota reveals stark racial disparities
Four years ago, lawmakers set a goal to dramatically increase the proportion of Minnesota adults who hold any sort of postsecondary educational qualification. Yet progress has been slow.
Ten candidates, four seats: A preview of the St. Paul school board race
Both incumbents seeking re-election, Zuki Ellis and Steve Marchese, along with challenger Chauntyll Allen, have secured endorsements from the DFL Party and local teachers union.
School bus driver shortage persists, prompting new recruitment strategies
Minneapolis Public Schools launched a hands-on training program in June, in an effort to combat a continued bus driver shortage that’s impacted districts all across the state in recent years.
How the University of Alaska — and other public U.S. universities — now struggle for funding
The higher education world has been rocked by the news that the University of Alaska’s state appropriations were slashed by nearly $136 million, 41% of its general fund appropriation to the university.
Pipeline to develop ethnic teachers has scholarships, an affinity group, evening hours — and open seats
Diversifying the teacher corps is widely accepted as a key lever in addressing the state’s wide, persistent achievement gap.
