Stillwater schools making changes, mulling cuts to address $5M shortfall
Stillwater Area School District officials next year will be changing how science is taught at the elementary-school level in order to increase time spent on literacy instruction. Beginning next year,...
View ArticleAbout $1.8 billion in federal money for Cornell and Northwestern is frozen,...
By WILL WEISSERT, CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and about $790...
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Schools relying on digital surveillance find security still takes a human touch
By CARLY FLANDRO of Idaho Education News and JACKIE VALLEY of the Christian Science Monitor Four years ago, a sixth grader in Rigby, Idaho, shot and injured two peers and a custodian at a middle...
View ArticleLooming Pell Grant shortfall could impact students’ ability to cover college...
By Eliza Haverstock, NerdWallet The federal Pell Grant program faces a looming $2.7 million budget shortfall, according to a January report from the Congressional Budget Office. Established in 1972,...
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Schools lined up for help getting cleaner school buses. Then came the EPA freeze
By MICHAEL CASEY and ALEXA ST. JOHN BOSTON (AP) — Looking to cut pollution from its fleet of diesel-burning school buses, an Oklahoma school district last year doubled its electric vehicles. Related...
View ArticleMN robotics teams preparing to compete in the big one: FIRST Championship
It was April 1 and the East Ridge High School robotics team was told that they had qualified to compete against some of the top robotics teams in the world. But it was also April Fools’ Day and they...
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‘Titanic’ digital evidence in documentary corroborates passenger accounts
Digital details revealed in a new documentary corroborate passenger accounts about the last hours — and seconds — of the RMS Titanic, which sank 113 years ago. The makers of “Titanic: The Digital...
View ArticleTrump administration freezing $2 billion in Harvard grants after university...
The Trump administration is freezing more than $2 billion in grants to Harvard after the university said it was rejecting a list of demands from the feds. The Trump admin has been pressuring the...
View ArticleHarvard’s challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government...
By COLLIN BINKLEY On one side is Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, with a brand so powerful that its name is synonymous with prestige. On the other side is the Trump...
View ArticleVisa cancellations sow panic for international students, with hundreds...
By ANNIE MA, MAKIYA SEMINERA and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER WASHINGTON (AP) — At first, the bar association for immigration attorneys began receiving inquiries from a couple students a day. These were...
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Trump administration sues Maine over participation of transgender athletes in...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and PATRICK WHITTLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday sued Maine for not complying with the government’s push to ban...
View ArticleHarvard stands to lose $2.2 billion in federal funding. Researchers fear...
By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS, AP Education Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research grants for...
View ArticleLakeville Area Schools OKs $30,000 settlement on Black Lives Matter posters
Following a lawsuit involving posters featuring Black Lives Matter, the Lakeville Area Schools Board of Education approved a $30,000 settlement April 8. In a lawsuit filed more than two years ago, a...
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Private schools face cuts under Gov. Tim Walz’s proposed budget
Proposed cuts in Gov. Tim Walz’s budget look to end a more than 50-year-old practice of providing aid to private schools — from transportation to counseling — a move nonpublic school leaders say...
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Tennessee’s GOP leads the fight to deny public education to children without...
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Damian Felipe Jimenez has many dreams about his future — he could be a restaurant owner, a scientist or maybe something...
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Trump administration takes aim at Harvard’s international students and...
By ANNIE MA, FATIMA HUSSEIN and ALIA WONG, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has escalated its ongoing battle with Harvard, threatening to revoke the...
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How war, money and the quest for discovery entwined the US government and...
By ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar figures. But in the battle...
View ArticleBurnsville graduation still scheduled on major Islamic holiday, despite...
Burnsville High School notified students and families Wednesday that its graduation date will remain on June 6, despite religious conflicts for some students and their families. Community members urged...
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Can the IRS revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status?
By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA and THALIA BEATY For more than a century, the majority of colleges and universities have not paid most taxes. The Revenue Act of 1909 excused nonprofits operating “exclusively...
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University protests blast Trump’s attacks on funding, speech and...
By RODRIQUE NGOWI and BEN FINLEY CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — University professors and students led protests on campuses across the U.S. on Thursday against what they say are broad attacks on higher...
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