Twin Cities schools report widespread online-attendance absences as students...
Minnesota’s transition to distance learning has left out tens of thousands of K-12 students and threatens to expand the state’s already wide gaps in achievement, early attendance reports suggest....
View ArticleMacalester College goes test-optional, won’t require ACT or SAT for admission
Macalester College announced Monday it will begin to consider students for admission without requiring an ACT or SAT score. The St. Paul private school said it had considered going test-optional for...
View ArticleHarvard under fire for accepting more than $8M in coronavirus relief package
Harvard University, backed by a $40 billion endowment, is facing criticism for taking in nearly $9 million from the coronavirus relief package. All of the money is helping Harvard students with...
View ArticleUniversity of Minnesota freezes tuition for 2020-2021 year amid coronavirus...
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents voted unanimously to freeze tuition across its five campuses for the 2020-2021 academic year. The action was taken during a special meeting Tuesday on how...
View Article‘I just can’t do this.’ Harried parents forgo home school.
Frustration is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of distance learning — and some overwhelmed parents say it will be their last. Amid the barrage of...
View ArticleA drive-by show of support: Kids and parents parade for Woodbury teachers
Teachers, staff and families at Middleton Elementary in Woodbury held a drive-through parade Tuesday. Families drove through the school parking lot so their children could wave at their teachers from a...
View ArticleSchool board formally approves deal that ended St. Paul teacher strike
The St. Paul school board on Tuesday formally approved the contract agreement that ended the teacher strike last month. Superintendent Joe Gothard said the deal requires the district to create more...
View ArticleFacing big enrollment loss, Minnesota State chancellor takes pay cut,...
The coronavirus pandemic is expected to deliver a major financial blow to a Minnesota State higher education system already mired in a decade-long enrollment decline. The 30 public colleges and seven...
View ArticleCoronavirus in Minnesota: $9.8 million in grants awarded to child care providers
As essential workers across the state continue to report to their jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic, Minnesota has taken additional steps to ensure children of essential workers have adequate care....
View ArticleGov. Walz closes schools through June, distance learning to continue
The coronavirus pandemic will keep Minnesota public schools shuttered into June and force schools to address gaps in knowledge and growing inequities for years to come, state officials said Thursday....
View ArticleLocal parents say distance learning is a struggle amid news that public...
Almost immediately after Laura Willemsen answered the phone to talk to a reporter about what it’s been like to work her full-time job from home while helping teach her two kids, one of them interrupted...
View ArticleNew program helps St. Paul district start career exploration as early as...
St. Paul Public Schools is dropping the college planning tool Naviance in favor of career-exploration software that works with students as early as preschool. Superintendent Joe Gothard’s strategic...
View ArticleNo in-class school means no spring sports in Minnesota
Gov. Tim Walz extended distance learning through the end of the school year on Thursday, and with it, dashed any hopes of a spring sports season once and for all. The Minnesota State High School League...
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MN makes plans for in-person instruction, home visits despite school-closure...
Minnesota education leaders are looking to strengthen their approach to distance learning, four weeks into an experiment that has exposed unequal access to technology and threatens to leave struggling...
View Article‘It was just too much’: How distance learning is breaking parents
Daniel Levin’s son, Linus, 7, was supposed to be doing math. Instead, he pretended to take a shower in the living room, rubbing a dry eraser under his arms like a bar of soap, which upset his...
View ArticleOprah to headline Facebook / Instagram graduation event
NEW YORK — Oprah will be the commencement speaker and Awkwafina, Jennifer Garner, Lil Nas X and Simone Biles will offer words of wisdom to the Class of 2020 in a multi-hour graduation streaming event...
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Eau Claire school district names South Washington County School district...
Michael Johnson, assistant superintendent of South Washington County Schools, has been named superintendent of the Eau Claire, Wis., Area School District. Johnson, 50, will replace superintendent Mary...
View ArticleBack to school: MN allows for limited in-person testing despite closure
Closed through the end of the school year, Minnesota public schools can bring back students for certain year-end assessments that can’t be completed remotely, according to new guidance from state...
View ArticleSt. Paul Public Schools to hold virtual graduation ceremonies
St. Paul Public Schools will provide “virtual graduations” for the Class of 2020, the district said Thursday. All school graduation ceremonies will be held at the times and dates previously set; the...
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Class of 2020: Amanda Lynch’s senior year was challenging even before the...
Amanda Lynch, in the class of 2020 at Henry Sibley High School in Mendota Heights, missed most of her senior year after developing meningitis from listeria, a foodborne bacterial illness, and from...
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