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School trust lands potential “gold mine”
3/16/2010 12:00 AM
Kris Berggren, Session Daily
If Minnesota follows Utah’s lead, it could grow a stealth education revenue source: its 2.4 million-acre Permanent School Fund lands. |
U's Bruininks proposes temporary pay cuts
3/16/2010 12:00 AM
Jenna Ross, Star Tribune
Some employees would take furloughs. Administrators would see bigger cuts. The University of Minnesota might solve its budget shortfall by cutting the pay of its 18,000 employees. |
School Libraries Suffer as Resources Disappear
3/16/2010 12:00 AM
John Fitzgerald, Minnesota 2020
The books smell new. The computers are gleaming. The shelves are stocked. And there's always someone at the reference desk to answer a question or point a student in the right direction. |
25 districts get OK to start school before Labor Day
3/15/2010 12:00 AM
Norman Draper, Star Tribune
The southwestern Minnesota districts sought the exemption in part to give students more time to prepare for state tests. Twenty-five school districts in southwestern Minnesota -- an unprecedented number -- have gotten the green light to start school before Labor Day. |
St. Cloud State to shut down 23 programs
3/15/2010 12:00 AM
Associated Press (Minnesota Public Radio)
St. Cloud State University says state budget cuts are forcing the school to close more than 10 percent of its programs. |
School year to start before Labor Day in SW Minn.
3/13/2010 12:00 AM
Tom Weber, Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren on Friday approved a plan that will let 25 school districts in southwestern Minnesota start next school year before Labor Day. |
Obama Calls for Major Change in Education Law
3/13/2010 12:00 AM
Sam Dillon, New York Times
The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad overhaul of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, proposing to reshape divisive provisions that encouraged instructors to teach to tests, narrowed the curriculum, and labeled one in three American schools as failing. |
More students relying on free and reduced lunches
3/11/2010 12:00 AM
Tom Weber, Minnesota Public Radio
More Minnesota families are feeling the pinch of a tough economy where it hurts more than many parents would like to admit -- their children's lunch money. |
Legislature rethinks rules for grad tests
3/11/2010 12:00 AM
Emily Johns, Star Tribune
Required tests in algebra II and biology would count for 25 percent of a student's grade and the state would take on the issue of grade inflation under proposed legislation. |
New national math, English standards drafted
3/10/2010 12:00 AM
Donna Gordon Blankinship, Associated Press (Pioneer Press)
Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards today as draft new national guidelines were released. |
Robbinsdale class sizes will inch up
3/9/2010 12:00 AM
Norman Draper, Star Tribune
Teacher layoffs approved by the school board are expected to translate into one more student in elementary classes and 1-1/2 more in higher grades. |
Teachers to run new Mpls. school
3/9/2010 12:00 AM
Emily Johns, Star Tribune
Minneapolis will open the state's first "self-governed" school and also sponsor a new charter school. |
Schools' New Math: the Four-Day Week
3/8/2010 12:00 AM
Chris Herring, Wall Street Journal
A small but growing number of school districts across the country are moving to a four-day week, in a shift they hope will help close gaping budget holes and stave off teacher layoffs, but that critics fear could hurt students' education. |
Reprieve on GRAD would fail students
3/8/2010 12:00 AM
Star Tribune Editorial
State shouldn't cave in on reading, writing test requirements. It should come as no surprise that when Minnesota raises the bar on tests that high school students must pass to graduate, some kids don't get a diploma. |
As the teachers union digs in, it's students who suffer
3/8/2010 12:00 AM
Opinion, Star Tribune
On a personal level, union leaders such as Education Minnesota President Thomas Dooher no doubt care about our schools, teachers and communities. We all know many wonderful teachers in Education Minnesota's ranks. They are our relatives, neighbors and friends. |
Federal Education Department to step up civil rights enforcement in nation's schools
3/7/2010 12:00 AM
Christine Armario, Associated Press (Star Tribune)
The federal Department of Education plans to intensify its civil rights enforcement efforts in schools around the country, including a deeper look at issues ranging from programs for immigrant students learning English to equal access to a college preparatory courses. |
Making black history available all year
3/7/2010 12:00 AM
Ian Larson, Star Tribune
At least two projects are gaining steam in a state that has no black history museum. Black history month may be over, but local historians say Minnesotans shouldn't forget about it until next February. |
Law halts charter school growth
3/6/2010 12:00 AM
Gregory A. Patterson, Star Tribune
A national charter school leader for two decades, Minnesota may not open any new ones this year. |
School decisions need to be local
3/4/2010 12:00 AM
Fergus Falls Journal Editorial
It's been one of the great Minnesota debates: Ma and Pa resorts vs. schools. In the 1980s, during an economic downturn, the Legislature passed a law forbidding schools from starting classes before Labor Day. |
Minn. won't get 'Race to Top' funding in 1st round
3/4/2010 12:00 AM
KSTP 5
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota schools are out of the running - at least for now - for a slice of the $4.35 billion "Race to the Top" grants after the state's application didn't advance past the first round. |
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