Saving Galtier: St. Paul parents cling to beloved school slated to close
In the Hamline-Midway neighborhood of St. Paul, tiny but tough Galtier Elementary is a gem of a community school. Parent Clayton Howatt has no doubt about it. His kindergartner had many a weepy morning...
View ArticleSchool bus drivers file complaint over speeding routes, stolen wages
Mahmud Kanyare has been driving school buses for Minneapolis and Suburban Bus Company for the past two years. He says the buses he's assigned to drive are never heated properly, and that he's pressured...
View ArticleDespite STD crisis, sex ed is a low priority for Minneapolis charter schools
Sexually transmitted diseases had a career year in Minnesota. An all-time high of nearly 26,000 cases was reported in 2015. And schools may be abetting the problem, says Minneapolis Health...
View ArticleNadia Goldman's feminist speech is more interesting than your high school...
Students at the prestigious St. Paul Academy are required to give a five-to-eight minute speech some time during their senior year in order to graduate. That's a pretty long time for a teenager onstage...
View ArticleACLU puts Greenway High School on blast for banning the word “gay”
Last week, a student at Greenway High School in Coleraine reached out to the American Civil Liberties Union’s Jana Kooren, asking her to send a speaker to headline a presentation for students of this...
View ArticleThe bill for Congressman John Kline's sins keeps soaring higher
Anthem, the defunct for-profit college, and Rep. John Kline, Minnesota's Most Reprehensible Congressman (TM), were never BFFs. But they were friendly. Like super friendly. During the course of his...
View ArticleU’s bioethics center shrivels under influence of Big Pharma dollars
When the head of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Bioethics announced his retirement last week, Dr. Steven Miles humbly reflected on his many accomplishments, which includes designing...
View ArticleThe case against free speech at the University of Minnesota
With the growth on college campuses in trigger warnings and safe spaces, shouting down speakers and blocking student journalists from public property, Prof. Dale Carpenter decided that the U of M could...
View ArticleScott Walker's budget cuts drive Wisconsin-Madison professors to Minnesota
His disastrous and short-lived presidential bid now a distant memory, Gov. Scott Walker can finally get back to meddling with affairs of state in Wisconsin. Just look what's happening in the state...
View ArticleSupportive 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...
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