‘Constantly on ‘Groundhog Day”: St. Paul middle, high schools reopen...
St. Paul middle and high school students return to their classrooms Wednesday after a long 13 months of distance learning. Well over half of high school students — 57 percent — faced their own mental...
View ArticleBurnsville school district forecasts $10.86 million budget deficit
The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage District is looking to close a $10.86 million budget deficit projected for the next fiscal year while minimizing the impact to students. Various programs and extracurricular...
View ArticleSt. Paul students return for in-person classes for first time since March...
Wearing a double mask, Principal Be Vang spent Wednesday morning welcoming students back to Harding High School for their first in-person classes in 401 days. “Feels like the first day of school,...
View ArticleTake the kids to see some kids … and piglets, lambs and chicks
Baby animals. Fluffy, wobbly, a little bit smelly baby animals. If you and the family need a little time with ducklings, chicks, piglets, kids and other baby animals, there are two chances to visit the...
View ArticleRacist threats in White Bear Lake were a ‘hoax’ to call attention to racist...
The hateful messages received last week by Black students at White Bear Lake Area High School were a “hoax,” sent by a female student who was trying to raise awareness of problems at the school,...
View ArticleStudents plan statewide walkout Monday against racial injustice
Metro-area high schoolers are encouraging students across the state to leave class Monday afternoon to take a stand against racial injustice. The walkout is planned from 1 to 1:47 p.m., the time...
View ArticleCharter school pushes to open in former Marine on St. Croix school building
It’s been almost four years since the Stillwater Area School District shuttered Marine Elementary School in Marine on St. Croix. Now, a group of parents and city officials are working to open a new...
View ArticleStudents suspended for taunts, anti-police slogans during Cretin-Derham Hall...
Cretin-Derham Hall suspended several students following a social justice walkout Monday that included profane, anti-police chanting and signs. The demonstration was one of more than 100 that took place...
View ArticleSponsor, school board to investigate after ex-employee says Woodbury charter...
A Woodbury charter school is being investigated by its sponsor and school board after a former employee accused the school of discriminating against minorities. School employee Judy Seeberger made the...
View ArticleMacalester College makes coronavirus vaccine mandatory by August
Macalester College will require any student or employee who will be on campus in the fall to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by Aug. 2. “Put simply, our students and employees deserve to live and...
View ArticleStudent in custody, no one hurt after shots fired inside Plymouth school
A student is in custody after firing a handgun into a ceiling Monday morning inside Plymouth Middle School. Police Chief Erik Fadden told reporters that officers heard “gunshots within the building” at...
View ArticleStudent’s Snapchat profanity leads to high court speech case
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen-year-old Brandi Levy was having that kind of day where she just wanted to scream. So she did, in a profanity-laced posting on Snapchat that has, improbably, ended up before...
View ArticleSt. Paul school district cancels in-person events; shows go on in suburban...
St. Paul Public Schools is canceling in-person events again this spring as the district tries to control the spread of the coronavirus, according to an internal email. Concerts, plays and year-end...
View ArticleWisconsin group challenges segregated meetings about Chauvin verdict
A conservative legal group is challenging a Wisconsin school district over an email sent to families soliciting their participation in what appeared to be racially segregated meetings to discuss the...
View ArticleWoodbury Leadership Academy plans three-story addition
A 700-student charter school in Woodbury is planning a three-story, 50,000-square-foot expansion. The Woodbury Leadership Academy is proposing to build the addition for a gymnasium, stage and more...
View ArticleFree busing, new magnet schools, integration orders: MN agrees to $63M annual...
Minnesota officials have agreed to create a metro-wide student busing program, establish four new magnet schools and order racially-isolated charter and district schools to integrate. The plans, which...
View ArticleDespite fraud concerns, MN won’t limit free summer meals for kids
Under pressure from anti-hunger advocates, the Minnesota Department of Education has reversed course on who can serve free meals to kids this summer. In a normal year, schools sign up to provide free...
View ArticleNine finalists named for MN teacher of the year
A St. Paul Public Schools teacher is one of nine finalists for Education Minnesota’s teacher of the year award. Eugenia Popa teaches English as a second language at Harding High School. South...
View ArticleBiden to the nation: We’re ‘turning peril into possibility’
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will use his first joint address to Congress to declare the nation is “turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity,”...
View ArticleHarris, Pelosi make history seated behind Biden at speech
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made history Wednesday as the first women — one of them Black and Indian American — to share the...
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