Supportive mom: Son's Confederate flag about 'people that fought for where we...
On Monday, Cody Nelson, a senior at Crosby-Ironton High School in north-central Minnesota, was disciplined for displaying a Confederate flag on the back of his vehicle. This was a no-no on school...
View ArticleBrian White Jr., St. Paul educator and sexist, homophobic Facebooker, quits...
Brian White Jr. vented to the online world. Last August he lent his support to life in decades past, sharing on Facebook a photo of a kitchen oven. In the coming months, White's common sense bowed to...
View ArticleTeen maced, arrested at Central High School for trespassing [VIDEO]
A 16-year-old boy was maced and forcibly arrested by a school resource officer at Central High School late Wednesday afternoon. Video of the encounter quickly went viral on Facebook, sparking outrage,...
View ArticleThe word that knocked Minnetonka eighth-grader Maxwell Meyer out of the...
The moment belonged to 14-year-old Maxwell Meyer. The eighth-grader at Minnetonka Middle School East looked like one of 45 finalists heading into the championships of the Scripps National Spelling Bee...
View ArticleTeachers criticized by Black Lives Matter removed from St. Paul Como Park High
Two longtime Como Park Senior High teachers who drew the ire of Black Lives Matter St. Paul this year have been removed from their positions. Theo Olson, a special ed teacher of 16 years, caught heat...
View ArticleMinnesotans are asking Google a stupid question
Google is the self-aware fool's best friend. Have a question you need answered, but you're too embarrassed to ask someone, even a close friend? Google it. No one will know what you didn't know. No one...
View ArticleSauk Rapids boy's personal goal: Wearing Harley shirts every day of the...
Last fall, as Becky Ayer walked her son Brian into Pleasantview Elementary on his first day of fifth grade, she asked him to set a goal for the year. Something academic related, or sports related,...
View ArticleDozens fired at St. Paul charter school in suspected union retaliation
The Community School of Excellence, one of the largest Hmong charter schools in St. Paul, has a K-8 student population that is nearly 100 percent Hmong-American. Many of its students speak English as a...
View ArticleLiving near the U comes down to a choice between luxury or slumlords
Reader Travis Anderson responds to Luxury apartments are swarming the U, but students can't buy serenity: Luxury apartments are only part of the problem with off-campus living around the U. Yes, it is...
View ArticleUnder-performing Hmong charter school needed to fire staffers
Reader KaZoua Xiong responded to Dozens fired at St. Paul charter school in suspected union retaliation: My daughter goes to that school and I think that everyone really needs to learn and truly...
View ArticleSt. Paul charter school's goal was to thwart union, not help students
Reader Ese Ele responds to Under-performing Hmong charter school needed to fire staffers: What an eloquent and well-written statement,"I am actually glad that this is happening. Yes, it SUCKS that some...
View ArticleMnSCU quietly doubles the cost of earning college credit in high school
In 1985, Minnesota passed a law to allow high school kids to start taking college courses in the 11th grade. Students across the state started earning credits that added up to entire years’ worth of...
View ArticleMinneapolis Public Schools tries to fire teacher Crystal Spring for watching...
Crystal Spring has been directing the Social Justice Black Box theater program at Washburn High School since 2008, helping students develop plays based on their own life experiences. The night of May...
View ArticleSt. Paul schools Superintendent Valeria Silva is apparently leaving
St. Paul Superintendent Valeria Silva is on her way out, the district confirmed Wednesday. The polarizing superintendent's departure is a long time coming. When Silva inherited St. Paul Schools in...
View ArticleAllina Health, to teachers union: Stop picketing us. Teachers: No.
When 4,800 nurses walked off the job this week to protest Allina Health's proposal to take away their union-fought health plans, they got a lot of sympathy and support from teachers. "This is more...
View ArticleVeteran St. Paul teachers say they were bullied out of work to save money
Last week, St. Paul Superintendent Valeria Silva received a golden parachute of nearly $800,000 to vacate the district’s top seat. It came as a sort of irony to a number of aging teachers who say they...
View ArticleSt. Paul Hmong charter school hires back teachers, narrowly escapes closure
The Community School of Excellence, a Hmong K-8 charter school in St. Paul, had one critical job to accomplish by July 1 in order to stay open. Charter schools need an authorizer – a separate,...
View ArticleLawsuit to forcibly desegregate Twin Cities schools moves closer to trial
Some 60 years after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that separate schools for black and white kids was inherently unfair, public schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul are...
View ArticleLawsuit: Bullies drove 13-year-old Tristan Seehus to kill himself
Tristan Seehus was just 13 years old, in his third year at Lincoln Park Middle School in Duluth, when he decided that he no longer wanted to live. For years, he and his group of friends were the...
View ArticleA dad's thoughts on keeping kids safe from school bullying
Reader Scott Parkhurst responds to Lawsuit: Bullies drove 13-year-old Tristan Seehus to kill himself: I am absolutely sympathetic to the victim here. It's horrible that he had to deal with this...
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