Why two Minnesota colleges are starting meat cutting programs
Central Lakes College and Ridgewater College are launching programs aimed at training the next generation of animal slaughter, butchery and processing workers.
Education
The number of schools in Minnesota with confirmed COVID-19 cases has tripled twice in the last two weeks. What’s going on?
For one thing, students are back in classrooms. For another, the delta variant is far more contagious than the original strain of coronavirus Minnesota saw last fall.
What Minneapolis Public Schools learned from six months of monitoring student communications — inside and outside school hours
At the start of the pandemic, the district signed a contract with Gaggle to monitor students’ school accounts. Within six months, the company had flagged over 1,300 student actions for review by district officials.
Education losses from the pandemic: The science of catching up
Daily tutoring for those who are most behind rises to the top in research evaluations.
What back-to-school COVID precautions look like in Minnesota’s largest school districts
Tuesday night, board members of St. Paul Public Schools unanimously passed a mask mandate. Here’s a look at what Minneapolis, Anoka-Hennepin and Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan districts are doing as well.
After a summer of controversy, some Minnesota teachers are anxious about the return of the school year
In small towns like Pequot Lakes, back-to-school nights and open houses often feel like family reunions. But teachers worry this year might be different.
Can Minnesota require COVID-19 vaccines for school children?
Minnesota already requires a number of vaccines for students of various ages. What about COVID-19?
What are Minnesota’s social studies standards — and does critical race theory have anything to do with them?
The Minnesota Department of Education is in the midst of a review of the state’s social studies standards, which will set the framework for what students will learn in their social studies classes for the next 10 years.
New state funding puts solar on the curriculum for Minnesota schools
The omnibus commerce and energy policy and finance bill includes $16 million for solar projects on K-12 schools and nearly $5 million for community colleges.
Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution
A growing number of employers are paying new employees while they train.
‘Millions upon millions’ in employer-funded education benefits go unused
While U.S. employers often tout benefits that promise to subsidize a college education, most workers can’t tap them. That may be changing.
Beyond the numbers: How to think about Minnesota’s graduation rates
Interpreting students’ success requires also considering student proficiency rates, realistic time frames, individual district results and other factors, educators say.
Minnesota’s community colleges show sharper than usual enrollment declines
“There was a time when community colleges had an inverse relationship with the economy. The economy’s up, enrollments down; economy’s down, enrollments up. Well, we’re in a new norm,” said Kay Frances-Garland of Saint Paul College.
Colleges come under closer scrutiny for holding transcripts hostage over unpaid bills
One of America’s biggest universities is ending its version of a longstanding practice that derails millions.
North Minneapolis renewable-energy training center to get a boost from the state
“I think it shows that when it comes to the issues, there are areas where we can come together,” said Rep. Jamie Long, “and that includes making sure that we have a workforce that is inclusive, that is ready for taking the jobs.”
In light of the Chauvin trial and Wright killing, Black students in the Twin Cities push for more support at school
“It’s a very scary feeling to know that all this is happening right outside of our doors, right in our streets, right in our community, and it feels like we’re not supported or not cared for in a way that we should be,” said student Aniya Bailey.
How will Minnesota schools use $1.3 billion in COVID relief funds?
The Minnesota Department of Education is required to spend some of the funds on addressing learning loss, through enrichment — i.e. learning activities beyond the school day, including after-school programs — and summer learning.
UMR’s new B.S. degree in health sciences finds a ‘silver lining’ in pandemic-era education
Most classes in the innovative year-round, two-year+ program will be taught virtually, using a gamification-based technology platform designed for the university by Google Cloud.
How one small college exemplifies higher education’s problems and potential solutions
Emmanuel College’s unusually long-serving leadership has already survived earlier brushes with mortality.
Two steps forward, one back: Teacher diversity bill may push hundreds of Minnesota educators of color from classrooms
A provision of House File 1081 would squeeze off a pipeline that’s attracted hundreds of diverse, successful educators with the promise of permanent licenses.
