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Big changes announced for 3 St. Paul libraries, including rebuild of...
Following more than a year of outreach and sometimes pitched debate, the St. Paul Public Library system has unveiled plans for a major renovation of the Hayden Heights Library on White Bear Avenue, a...
View ArticleAfter Texas shooting, schools around US boost security
In the aftermath of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, schools around the U.S. have brought in additional security staff and restricted visitors as they deal with a new rash of copycat...
View ArticleUvalde tells Biden to ‘do something’; he pledges ‘we will’
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden sought Sunday to comfort a city grieving the killings of 19 elementary school pupils and two teachers at the hands of a lone gunman. Faced with chants of “do...
View ArticleBeto O’Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor’s race
WASHINGTON (AP) — Still mourning a Texas mass shooting, Democrat Beto O’Rourke gave his long-shot campaign a jolt by imploring a national audience that it was finally time for real action to curb the...
View ArticleA dad’s anguish outside Texas school while shooting unfolded
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Javier Cazares raced to his daughter’s school when he heard there was a shooting, leaving his truck running with the door open as he ran into the school yard. In his rush, he...
View ArticleProbe could shed light on police time lapse in Uvalde deaths
Since the Columbine High School massacre more than 20 years ago, police have been trained to quickly confront shooters in the horrific attacks that have followed. But officers in Uvalde, Texas, took...
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Uvalde: Visitations, funerals and burials, one after another
A heart shaped balloon flies decorating a memorial site outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Monday, May 30, 2022. 19 children and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old gunman at the...
View ArticleGroup with new funding model for Catholic education adopts school on St....
Early in the morning in November 2019, Inna Collier Paske, principal of St. Pascal Regional School, had a vision. Her school’s enrollment was dropping fast, and so was financial support from...
View ArticleEmpty spaces, broken hearts in a Texas town gutted by loss
UVALDE, Texas — Josie Albrecht drove frantically from house to house, retracing the school bus route she drives twice a day, delivering Uvalde’s children safely to and from school. When she’d picked...
View ArticleMourners gather as funerals begin for Uvalde killings
By NATHAN ELLGREN, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JIM SALTER UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The pallbearers wore white shirts and gloves. The desert-brown church with the tall bell tower was filled to overflowing. The...
View ArticleAfter uproar, second draft of MN math standards shows 1% of learning...
The latest draft of new math standards for Minnesota schools suggests the addition of material related to American Indian tribes and other cultures won’t have a major impact on what students are...
View ArticleTech donations sought for Minnesota students this Saturday in St. Paul
Because more than 100,000 Minnesota students don’t have technology and devices at home, Minnesota Tech for Success is asking the public to donate their unwanted tech devices — including laptops,...
View ArticleFew students plan to leave St. Paul district when five schools close in fall
Students at the five schools that are closing next fall overwhelmingly intend to stay in the St. Paul school district, according to a report this week to the school board. With district enrollment well...
View ArticleMinnesota State students face likely 3.5% tuition increase
Almost every Minnesota State college and university is expected to increase tuition by 3.5 percent next year, system officials said Tuesday. Budgets aren’t due to the system office till next week, but...
View ArticleTartan High senior chosen as ThreeSixty scholar for four-year scholarship to...
Gwynnevere Vang, a senior at Tartan High School in Oakdale, has been chosen as the ThreeSixty Journalism Scholar and will attend the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul on a four-year, full-tuition...
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University of St. Thomas eyes Highland Bridge for Division I hockey,...
As the University of St. Thomas scouts potential locations for three new sports facilities, it’s putting no small amount of energy into discussions with St. Paul city and community leaders around...
View ArticleEast metro school districts vote to shut down Equity Alliance
Equity Alliance, a consortium of east metro school districts that worked toward racial integration and equity, is running out of money and winding down its operations. The organization used to be...
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One quits, another is fired, a third reassigned after students complain of...
Two years after students in an online petition made allegations of sexual harassment and other student mistreatment by several St. Anthony Village High School staffers, one man has resigned, a second...
View ArticleUMN regents OK 3.5% tuition hike for Twin Cities, Rochester students
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents on Thursday approved a $4.2 billion budget that will raise tuition for most undergraduates by 3.5 percent. That’s the increase Twin Cities and Rochester...
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Johnson band director Anne Marie Person —‘an angel carrying a baton’— calls...
Jason Kroll made history in 1990 when he became the first boy to try out for the Johnson High School dance team. But Kroll said he would never have become the school’s first male J-Ette without the...
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