The Washburn High School girls Nordic ski team are state champions for the first time in the school’s history. The team placed first at the Minnesota State High School League Nordic Ski …
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4/18/25
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During the school week, the students from Japan presented about Japanese culture and joined their host students to experience what school is like in America. On Thursday, the students from Kasugaoka …
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3/21/25
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The Washburn High School girls Nordic ski team are State champions for the first time in the school’s history. The team placed first at the Minnesota State High School League Nordic …
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3/19/25
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Today, the Minnesota House of Representatives Education Policy Committee will hear legislation authored by Ron Kresha (R - Little Falls) repealing Minnesota’s ethnic studies program …
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2/18/25
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Summer camp season will be here before parents know it. While children anxiously await the last day of school, adults know that it can be challenging to keep kids occupied and mentally stimulated …
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1/31/25
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Minneapolis Public Schools Career and Technical Education (CTE) program aims to match students with real-world skills, but some high schools are restricting access. Even though students register, …
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By Tesha M. Christensen
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1/2/25
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On Tuesday evening, Dec. 10, 2024, parents, caregivers, and teachers packed the Davis Center board room and the overflow space to voice concern over ballooning class sizes and shrinking numbers of …
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Laura Wilhelm (parent of Dowling Elementary students) and Maggie Koerth (Bryn Mawr parent)
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1/2/25
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What are the biggest barriers to young people succeeding in the Twin Cities? Are there enough resources to assist youth facing overwhelming challenges? Are those resources readily accessible? And …
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By Jan Willms
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9/18/24
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Southwest voters will be choosing a new District 6 school board member this fall. Ira Jourdain announced early this year that he would not being seeking re-election as Minneapolis Public School (MPS) …
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By Cam Gordon
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8/21/24
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Positive impacts on a community don’t always need an adult to start change. Business for the Youth, founded in April 2023, developed from the mind of Sam Vahhaji during his sophomore year at …
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By Evan Vezmar
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8/21/24
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Jessica Miller still shrieks sometimes when a spider jumps on her, but the south Minneapolis environmental entomologist has found that makes her more approachable when she’s teaching classes on …
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By Tesha M. Christensen
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7/24/24
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The newly open Red Lake Nation College in downtown Minneapolis is one of the first tribal colleges in a major U.S. city and is reaching a “never-served” community,” according to Dan …
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By Tesha M. Christensen
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7/24/24
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Lisa Sayles-Adams, the new Minneapolis Public School (MPS) Superintendent, has been on the job for less than three months and has already participated in two major contract negotiations. Plus, she is …
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Two Southwest runners are making a difference one step at a time.
On May 19, 2024, Jake Lepak and Patrick Larson will run 50 miles around Lake Harriet to raise money and awareness for Special …
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By Tesha M. Christensen
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5/15/24
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T he world has changed. Our education system has not. As a result, school is broken .
It's so bad that many kids don't go to school anymore. Chronic absenteeism was an issue before the pandemic. …
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By Eric Ortiz
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2/14/24
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Every artist has an interesting origin story. But nothing compares with how Mark Rivard got started. Rivard began illustrating skateboards with Sharpie markers in the early 2000s.
That led to an …
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by Eric Ortiz
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1/25/24
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In the fall of 2023, two students from Yinghua Academy Chinese immersion school in northeast Minneapolis went on the trip of a lifetime. Keewaydin resident and sixth grader Sage Houdek and seventh …
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By Jill Boogren
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1/18/24
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Sure, you’ve seen fifth graders do the “griddy” dance, but have you seen them tango, waltz, rumba and foxtrot? More than 70 students at Barton Elementary School, 4237 Colfax Ave. …
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1/18/24
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Hennepin county is offering grants for preschools, K-12 schools and colleges in Hennepin County to start or improve waste reduction programs. The money can be spent on staff time, equipment and …
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1/18/24
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At its first meeting of the year, on Jan. 2, the Minneapolis Public School Board unanimously elected Collin Beachy for the position of board chair for the year. Last year he was vice chair. Kim …
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1/18/24
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